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Reading Pointers Backwards Since 1985 — A MIPS Mirai Variant Up Close
Beginner-friendly walkthrough of a MIPS Mirai/CondiBot variant called ohshit.mips: decoding the single-byte XOR strings, mapping a 21-slot function pointer table that turns out to be mostly unrelated to the C2 attack vocabulary, and tracing how genddos.st ends up as a DNS amplification payload instead of a C2 domain.
What Music Does Malware Listen To? A Deep Dive into Spotify's Dark Side
An ironically scientific investigation into the musical preferences of malware samples. Turns out, even malicious code has taste—sometimes literally obfuscated in Base64.
Your Malware Is Talking. I’m Listening
Communication has always been a core component of technical systems. Long before modern messaging platforms, IRC channels were used to surface system state and …
Ping Me Maybe - When SubCrawl Started Talking to Teams
When you spend enough time with a research framework, you start having conversations with it. Sometimes those conversations go like this: Me: “Hey SubCrawl, …