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Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution

Disclosed
12/04/2015
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module allows remote command execution on an IRC Bot developed by xdh. This perl bot was caught by Conor Patrick with his shellshock honeypot server and is categorized by Markus Zanke as an fBot (Fire & Forget - DDoS Bot). Matt Thayer also found this script which has a description of LinuxNet perlbot. The bot answers only based on the servername and nickname in the IRC message which is configured on the perl script thus you need to be an operator on the IRC network to spoof it and in order to exploit this bot or have at least the same ip to the config.

Author(s)

  • Jay Turla
  • Conor Patrick
  • Matt Thayer

Platform

Unix,Windows

Architectures

cmd

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use exploit/multi/misc/xdh_x_exec
msf exploit(xdh_x_exec) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(xdh_x_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(xdh_x_exec) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(xdh_x_exec) > exploit

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