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Top 9 C Backdoor Projects
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TheFatRat
Thefatrat a massive exploiting tool : Easy tool to generate backdoor and easy tool to post exploitation attack like browser attack and etc . This tool compiles a malware with popular payload and then the compiled malware can be execute on windows, android, mac . The malware that created with this tool also have an ability to bypass most AV software protection .
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The Hackers Choice elinux kernel br xcellerator lkmpg cat enjoyer My rootkit diamorphine
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TripleCross
A Linux eBPF rootkit with a backdoor, C2, library injection, execution hijacking, persistence and stealth capabilities.
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SmmBackdoorNg
Updated version of System Management Mode backdoor for UEFI based platforms: old dog, new tricks
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remote_hacker_probe
Threat Emulation and Red Teaming Framework, The Hacking Software for normal people.
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reveng_rtkit
Linux Loadable Kernel Module (LKM) based rootkit (ring-0), capable of hiding itself, processes/implants, rmmod proof, has ability to bypass infamous rkhunter antirootkit.
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Project mention: Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor – Columbia Engineering Guest Lecture [video] | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-30
Worth a watch. There's also this GitHub where there's reverse engineering going on: https://github.com/smx-smx/xzre
We now know the answer to the question of "who would win?"
1) A years-long nation-state-backed hacking effort to infiltrate a software project and compromise most servers in the Western world
or
2) A German's obsession with efficiency and precision in engineering
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Backdoor discussion
C Backdoor related posts
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Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor – Columbia Engineering Guest Lecture [video]
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The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper
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eBPF – Running sandboxed programs in a privileged context such as OS kernel
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TripleCross – Linux eBPF Rootkit
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GitHub - h3xduck/TripleCross: A Linux eBPF rootkit with a backdoor, C2, library injection, execution hijacking, persistence and stealth capabilities.
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Show HN: TripleCross – A Linux eBPF rootkit with a C2 system and more
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Show HN: Credentials dumper for Linux using eBPF
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Backdoor projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | TheFatRat | 9,779 |
| 2 | Diamorphine | 1,939 |
| 3 | TripleCross | 1,825 |
| 4 | SmmBackdoorNg | 297 |
| 5 | remote_hacker_probe | 244 |
| 6 | reveng_rtkit | 247 |
| 7 | WSAAcceptBackdoor | 112 |
| 8 | yoga-bios-unlock | 105 |
| 9 | xzre | 92 |
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