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Iranian Botnet Exposed via Open Directory: 15-Node Relay Network and Active C2
An OPSEC failure on an Iranian-hosted staging server at 185.221.239[.]162 exposed a financially motivated operator's full working environment, including a 15-node KCP-based relay network spanning Finnish Hetzner nodes and Iranian ISPs, a Python botnet deployer (ohhhh.py) opening 500 concurrent SSH sessions to compile and launch a DDoS bot client (cnc) directly on victim machines via gcc, and MHDDos tooling tested against live targets. The exposed .bash_history documented three operational phases: tunnel deployment using paqet and 3x-ui, DDoS development targeting a FiveM GTA server (5.42.223[.]60:30120) and 194.147.222[.]151, and iterative C2 botnet buildout with Farsi inline comments confirming operator origin. Defenders should block the listed IOCs, monitor for unexpected gcc invocations and renamed binaries ("hex"), audit SSH access logs for credential-stuffing patterns, and treat any recruited hosts as independently compromised regardless of C2 reachability.
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