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TI-994A wrote:Clearly, PureBasic's pretty versatile, but an endorsement from such a hacker?

MachineCode wrote:He's probably the very reason that there's so many virus alerts about PureBasic executables.

Attacker wrote:...I could upload the code somewhere and let you compile it. That is if you can find some PureBasic compiler on some warez site.

If you think a VNC scan is likely to be a waste of time and that you’ll never find systems with open VNC servers enabled, think again. During a large penetration test, which included thousands of systems, one of the authors noticed that one of those systems had an open VNC server.

While the author was in the system documenting his finding, he noticed activity on the system. This was overnight on a system that was unlikely to have an authorized user on it. While not always considered a best practice, the author pretended to be another unauthorized intruder and engaged the intruder in conversation via Notepad. The intruder was not very bright and told the author that he was scanning large blocks of systems for open VNC servers. Here is a segment of the conversation:

Author: You in the us? or out of country? I know some people in denmark.

Attacker: I’m from Norway actually, hehe, I have relatives in Denmark.

Author: You hang in any boards? like I used to like some but they have been going away

Attacker: I mostly hang in some programming boards, but not much else. Have you been into hacking for a long time or what? What’s your age btw? I’m 22.

Author: I have been on this for like fun for around a year or so. Still in school. 16. Just something to do.

Attacker: Haven’t been there. I too mostly do this for fun, just trying to see what I can do, test my skills. I wrote the “VNC finder” myself btw, I have found a lot of servers, but this is the only one where I could actually have some fun

Author: Wow. What did you write it in? Can I dl it? Do you have a handle?

Attacker: It’s written in a language called PureBasic, but it’s kinda not ready for release yet, it’s only for my own use. But maybe I can share it anyway, I could upload the code somewhere and let you compile it. That is if you can find some PureBasic compiler on some warez site

Author: Thats cool. you can put it in that pastebin site from irc. That lets you anon post I have not done purebasic before. just python and perl

Attacker: Let me see, I'll look for that pastebin site and upload it, just give me some minutes, I’ll be around.

The attacker then gave the author a link to a pastebin page with the full source for the custom VNC scanner he was using.

skywalk wrote:Is this the demo or a pirated copy? ~18000 downloads