Botnet Challenge

I wont be posting any how's or flags to get through this but will show a glimpse of why this frustrated me toward the end.

First of all know your nmap commands. There's so much more than the typical -sC -sV -A -T4 [ip] -p [port]

Know your SQL Injections!

Broke in!

Feeling like Elliot Alderson right about now

Now the next step is to really understand scripting. Which I had no preparation for. Aside from breaking in with the SQL Injections and learning about scripting through reading and asking friends, I was down about a week for this.

My code went from this:

Slowly to this over a week:

Slowly getting there

I kept running the code and kept editing the script until the bot caught on.

Then the unspeakable happened.

I completed it! (Didn't take a scrnshot of all the bots going down, I was just happy I got through it, and didn't want to undergo that hell again, lol)