New Shodan Tool Can Find Malware Command and Control (C&C) Servers

stapp · May 2, 2017

Shodan and Recorded Future have launched today a search engine for discovering malware command-and-control (C&C) servers. Named Malware Hunter, this new tool is integrated into Shodan, a search engine for discovering Internet-connected devices.

Malware Hunter works via search bots that crawl the Internet looking for computers configured to function as a botnet C&C server.

In order to trick a C&C server to reveal its location, the search bot uses various predefined requests to pretend to be infected computer that's reporting back to the C&C server. If the scanned computer responds, Malware Hunter logs the IP and makes it available via the Shodan interface.
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boredog · May 2, 2017

I signed up for this some months back. Never used it much but looks like they mad some improvements. Just took a look at it again.

itman · May 2, 2017

Read about this early today.

Appears it would benefit security vendors and their associated products which provide botnet protection although most already are doing so using their own internal solutions.

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