I am the creator of the PTN FUN TROJAN from 2003. I was just starting to learn coding and created this simple server/client program using visual basic and numerous code VB snippets I found online. I was able to open/close CD trays, turn off monitors, disable CRTL+ALT+DEL, send screenshots, hide the mouse pointer and other stuff. I created an autostart CD with the title "CS MAPS" and handed it around on private LANs infecting all my friends computers. I had quite a few computers depending on my mercy.
On one occasion, one of my friends realized, he wasn't in full control of his computer. He opened notepad and tried to communicate with me, the hacker, by typing messages. I could read his messages from the screenshots and found it pretty hilarious at that time. I responded by turning his screen up-side-down.
Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
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Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
#82Well, back in my pre-teen script kiddie days of using BO2K/Netbus and early Sub7 builds I was on the other side of the screen. Sub7 I recall distinctly had all the listed features and a lot more - keylogging, chat client, webcam viewing, screen capture, open/closing CD tray, etc. There was a GUI interface that would let you select any of the above features that would create a payload that could be injected into any .…
Does anyone know if all webcams have the activity light hardwired in-line with the webcam itself. I have always wondered if the light is a definitive indicator whether the cam is on, or if the light can be deactivated. Sorry, I guess this only applies to non-Mac, mostly Win, machines as something so plebeian as an indicator light would never make it into a Mac.
Nice try with the jab at Apple—MacBook Pros have a small green light to indicate whether the camera is in use or not.
Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
How did you embed the exe client into a jpg (rather than just changing the icon)?
IIRC, Sub7 had a tool which did this. You could also 'pack' the executable. My infection vector of choice was embedding it into fake resumes and sending it to job ads...ahh, the memories...
The fake resume idea is brilliant. How could I have overlooked that back in the days. All I did as a script kiddie was scanning IP ranges and playing with infected accounts. Good times.
Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
#84Well, back in my pre-teen script kiddie days of using BO2K/Netbus and early Sub7 builds I was on the other side of the screen. Sub7 I recall distinctly had all the listed features and a lot more - keylogging, chat client, webcam viewing, screen capture, open/closing CD tray, etc. There was a GUI interface that would let you select any of the above features that would create a payload that could be injected into any .…
A GUI interface, eh? :P
Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
#85To answer the title: yes. It was my freshman year of college and my first introduction to broadband in 1998. I discovered irc via mIrc and somehow somebody put something on my computer where they could control the mouse/keyboard. I watched the guy move the cursor around for a while then begin to type to him. He was cool, and told me how to prevent it from happening again.
How did he do it?
I have no idea. I wish I did though
Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
#86When I was a teenager I found it fun to intentionally infect myself with malware and try to study it. I know realize this wasn't the most responsible thing to do, as I wasn't in a sandboxed environment, but it was a great learning experience and taught me a lot about networking and security. One of the biggest malwares I ever managed to infect myself with was a bot, which caused my computer to become a zombie on a ~1…
It's funny you should say this. I practically did the same thing, from a different perspective. I ran my own little IRC server when I was a teenager, and one day I noticed a lot of my friends were being disconnected from the server. After some more investigation, it seemed like they were actually being disconnected completely from the Internet. Bit odd. Upon more investigation, I found an acquaintance had something l…
If you can and want to, would you mind elaborating on your acquaintance? I'm intrigued on what did he do and how he got caught :-)
Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
#87Recently a friend of mine sent me a piece of obfuscated JS that was in a phishing page that was being posted around his large gaming related website. Threw the JS into closure compiler with advanced optimisations and pretty print and out comes relatively unobfuscated code- it cleared up the series of horrible regexes anyway. The code injected a Java applet that downloaded a botnet virus. Decompiling the Java applet r…
> Threw the JS into closure compiler with advanced optimisations
> and pretty print and out comes relatively unobfuscated code...
Boss hack. That strategy would have never occurred to me. Thanks!
Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I tried a "hello" and waited. And waited. And then I was k-lined from the IRC network. The next day when I logged onto my computer, I found my Internet connectivity was being overwhelmed with bogus TCP requests. I'd probably do the same, upon discovering that one of my bots had become sentient.
Exactly what I would have done. DC'ed and headed for the closest bunker.
I do think the appropriate course of action is to /nick SkyNet and start shouting killAllHumans
Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except when he went on record opposing the addition of raw-sockets to Windows XP saying it would help hackers and spell the end of the world. I remember clutching my Redhat CD, just in case raw sockets were banned ;-) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/25/steve_gibson_really_...
And then you know they banned them with a nonremovable patch, right? http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2005/4
Who cares about XP? I was fearing legislation because his cry of wolf was heard far and wide.
Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know if all webcams have the activity light hardwired in-line with the webcam itself. I have always wondered if the light is a definitive indicator whether the cam is on, or if the light can be deactivated. Sorry, I guess this only applies to non-Mac, mostly Win, machines as something so plebeian as an indicator light would never make it into a Mac.
Nice try with the jab at Apple—MacBook Pros have a small green light to indicate whether the camera is in use or not.
Yeah, you can just take a quick pic using the camera; the light flashes for barely a second and you won't notice. Metasploit has a stager for exactly this purpose:
http://www.metasploit.com/modules/payload/osx/x86/isight/rev...