Re: [Full-disclosure] Oh Yeah, botnet communications

[T Biehn <tbiehn@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:31 AM, James Matthews <nytrokiss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> II would use something like UDP or IGMP and modify the packets slightly. I
> know that most routers will just pass them on and not worry about a few
> weird things.
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:56 PM, John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP <
> bambenek.infosec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Yes, its possible, I mapped out something on a high level that would
>> use rss/xml and would evade most detection methods on the network...
>> Problem comes in is that stuff gets detected at infection-time and
>> gets reverse engineered. Stealthy botnets is easy, stealthy infection
>> is trickier.
>>
>> On 2/19/09, T Biehn <tbiehn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > God Valdis,
>> > Dont concentrate on the mundane, the core issue is the unpredictable
>> nature
>> > of it.
>> > You have them all coordinate reading the news at 12:00 AM GMT.
>> > You build some silly algorithm that ensures they pick the right article.
>> >
>> > -Travis
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:34 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:13:38 EST, T Biehn said:
>> >>
>> >> > You know how the current amateur botnet offerings are basing domain
>> >> > lists
>> >> > off the current time to allow the 'good guys' to prepare?
>> >> >
>> >> > Why not base the seed off something like a news RSS feed? I asked
>> some
>> >> > whitehats when I was ruined in Washington DC and they couldn't tell
>> me.
>> >>
>> >> If you're the botnet owner, you need to have some way to know what
>> domain
>> >> name your botnet will be looking for, so you can register it.
>> >>
>> >> If you look at 11:06AM, see the top news story is something about Obama
>> >> flipping the Republican party the bird, and computes the domain name to
>> >> register based on that, but then at 11:07AM some editor at CNN pulls
>> that
>> >> headline and replaces it with "Obama sends obscene gesture to
>> Republicans"
>> >> before your bots wake up at 11:08AM and check what domain to use,
>> you're
>> >> screwed.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
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