Yesterday, I got my hands on the source code of an IRC bot written in Perl. Yes, IRC (“Internet Relay Chat”) is still alive! If the chat protocol is less used today to handle communications between malware and their C2 servers, it remains an easy way to interact with malicious bots that provide interesting services to attackers. I had a quick look at the source code (poorly written) and found some interesting information:
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