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C2Looper Backdoor Uses GitHub for C2

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C2Looper Backdoor Uses GitHub for C2 | ThreatLabz

By ThreatLabz

Technical Analysis

In the following sections, ThreatLabz examines the technical details of the identified C2Looper variants, including their features, network communication protocols and commands.

String encryption and Windows API resolution

All identified C2Looper variants use string encryption and dynamically resolve Windows C2Looper uses the Windows API functions LoadLibrary

necessary functions at runtime.

C2Looper decrypts strings at runtime using a bitwise XOR operation with an 8-byte key having a single decryption function for every encrypted string,…

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