New Russian DIY DDoS bot spotted in the wild

By Dancho Danchev

Over the last couple of years, the modular and open source nature of today’s modern DDoS (distributed denial of service) bots inevitably resulted in the rise of the DDoS for hire and DDoS extortion monetization schemes within the cybercrime ecosystem.

These maturing business models require constant innovation on behalf of the cybercriminals providing the easy to use and manage DIY DDoS bots, the foundation of these business models.

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Sample screenshot of the command and control interface of the Russian DIY DDoS Bot:

• The bot supports SYN flooding, HTTP flooding, POST flooding and the special Anti-DDoS protection type of flooding. 
• It has also built-in anti-antivirus features allowing it avoid detection by popular host-based firewalls.... 
• t will not work under a virtual machine preventing potential analysis of the malicious binaries conducted by a malware researcher. 
• Randomization of the HTTP requests using multiple user-agents in an attempt to trick anti-DDoS protection on the affected hosts. ........

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