NKAbuse: The First NKN-Abusing Malware Threat
NKAbuse: The First NKN-Abusing Malware Threat
NKAbuse
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NKAbuse’s utilization of NKN to launch DDoS attacks poses a significant challenge for security professionals, as the attacks are difficult to trace and unlikely to be detected by conventional security tools.
By leveraging the NKN public blockchain protocol, NKAbuse can carry out flooding attacks and establish a backdoor within Linux systems, enabling it to communicate with a bot master and execute various malicious commands.
The payload commands sent by the C2 include HTTP, TCP, UDP, PING, ICMP, and SSL flood attacks aimed at a specified target.
DDoS attack commands (Kaspersky)
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The malware’s capabilities extend beyond DDoS attacks, as it also functions as a remote access trojan (RAT), granting its operators the ability to execute commands, exfiltrate data, and capture screenshots on compromised systems.
Screenshot functionality (Kaspersky)
This versatility and adaptability, combined with the use of blockchain technology to obfuscate the source of attacks, make NKAbuse a highly challenging threat to defend against.
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