hacker tool: pan2?

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 15:34, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > what is pan2?
> > We just got hacked, and looking in the root's .bash_history, they
> > downloaded pan2 from a .ro server, and it's still running. I was just
> > wondering what that is..i can't seem to get a clear answer from google.
>
> Looks like it is an NNTP program (namely a client for news servers).

Exactly! so why would they then wget pan2 from a .ro server?
They also installed dsniff.