Doctor Web discovers Linux Trojan written in Rust
Published: 2016-09-08 · Archived: 2026-04-10 02:47:30 UTC
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08.09.2016
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September 8, 2016
Doctor Web’s specialists have discovered a new Linux Trojan written in the Rust programming language.
The Trojan has been named Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16.
Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16 is a typical backdoor program that executes commands issued by cybercriminals via the
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol. The Trojan connects to the public chat channel specified in its configuration
and awaits its instructions.
The Trojan can execute just four commands. It can connect to a specified chat channel; send cybercriminals
information about an infected computer; send cybercriminals data about the applications running in a system; and
delete itself from an infected machine.
Unlike the majority of its counterparts, Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16 is written in Rust, a programming language
whose creation was sponsored by Mozilla Research. Its first stable version was released in 2015.
Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16 was designed to be a cross-platform Trojan—to make a version for Windows, for
example, cybercriminals can just recompile this malware program. Doctor Web’s analysts believe that
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Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16 is, in fact, a prototype (Proof of Concept), because it cannot replicate itself, and the IRC
channel used by the Trojan to receive commands from cybercriminals is not currently active.
The signature for Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16 is already in the Dr.Web for Linux database, and it is successfully
detected and removed by Doctor Web Anti-virus products.
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