100 Days of YARA – Day 27: LOKI2

LOKI2 is an old backdoor released in Phrack Magazine in 1997. This tool is still somewhat novel even in 2021, providing a shell over the ICMP protocol. http://phrack.org/issues/49/6.htmlhttp://phrack.org/issues/51/6.html A few years ago, I read an article that highlighted this tool's use by the Turla group that piqued my interest. Due to this tool running over …

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100 Days of YARA – Day 26: Merlin C2

Merlin is a cross-platform post-exploitation Command & Control server and agent written in Go. This C2 software offers some unique features such as operating over the QUIC protocol and compatibility with the Mythic Framework.https://github.com/Ne0nd0g/merlin I encountered this C2 while playing Pros versus Joes CTF. rule merlin { meta: description = "https://github.com/Ne0nd0g/merlin" strings: $a = "github.com/Ne0nd0g/merlin" …

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