Laika

Laika is a simple botnet stack for red teaming. It allows authenticated communication across a custom protocol with generated key pairs which are embedded into the executable.

Some notable features thus far:

• Lightweight, the bot alone is 270kb (22kb if not statically linked) and uses very little resources.
• Uses obfuscation techniques also seen in the wild (string obfuscation, tiny VMs executing sensitive operations, etc.)
• Simple configuration using CMake
  • Setting keypairs (-DLAIKA_PUBKEY=? -DLAIKA_PRIVKEY=?)
  • Obfuscation modes

Why 'Laika'?

During the soviet space race, Laika was the first dog in space; however shortly after died of asphyxiation and overheating of the shuttle. Take whatever you want from this information.

Configuration and compilation

First, compile the target normally

cmake -B build && cmake --build build

Now, generate your custom key pair using genKey

./bin/genKey

Next, rerun cmake, but passing your public and private keypairs

rm -rf build && cmake -B build -DLAIKA_PUBKEY=997d026d1c65deb6c30468525132be4ea44116d6f194c142347b67ee73d18814 -DLAIKA_PRIVKEY=1dbd33962f1e170d1e745c6d3e19175049b5616822fac2fa3535d7477957a841 && cmake --build build