[Python] malware scripts and coding?

[MrWhiteHat]

Hey everyone, I'm writing this because I've been crawling the deep web for months trying to find forums/blogs trying to get full programs or snippets of malware code in the python language. For all that are skeptic, this is strictly for educational purposes only, if anyone could help me out in finding sites or sources it would be greatly appreciated.

[Cool_Fire]

I don't think you're going to find much malware written in Python. It's just not economical.
As a malware writer, you want to go for maximum penetration (lol, don't we all) and if you're writing your malware in Python, you're cutting yourself out of a large chunk of possible targets, as most PCs don't have Python installed.
And the ones that do have Python, usually belong to the more tech savvy users, so they'll generally be better protected too.

Besides all that, Python scripts aren't compiled, so you'd be giving away all your best secrets to anyone who opens it, rather then people having to go trough a long reverse engineering process to get any information out of it.

[MrWhiteHat]

Could you point me in the direction of a language that is fairly simplistic yet widely used for malware ?
I was thinking probably C would be my best bet but... I'm not exactly sure. I've been learning Python for a while and I'm concerned I'll have to re-route my education more towards the C language for studying malware.

[psilocybin]

first of all, lol at the "deep web". why did it suddenly become fashionable to call tor the deep web? f***ing 4chan kids, +fravia writes one article on the deep web, now anything that requires more than 5 seconds to access is the "deep web". has anyone found anything useful on tor anyway? all that I've been able to find are crappy hacking forums full of newbs, people trying to buy drugs, and links to kiddy porn.

ahem, sorry for the digression. if you want to sell a 1337 RAT to kiddie forums then you should do it in C# or VB6, but if you want it to actually be good it should be a combination of C and assembly. if you know python that will ease the transition into C, and knowing C will ease your transition into assembly. aside from languages, you'll also need to have a good understanding of the API of your target system (probably linux or windows), and to understand some low-level aspects of the architecture (probably x86). but again, if you just want to stitch together snippets of code into something easily slapped together with, most importantly, a pretty gui, then C# or VB6 all the way.

wait, does anyone even use VB6 anymore?

[MrWhiteHat]

Aside from the paragraph about how bad you're PMSing that was fairly cut and dry straight forward lol. I'm guessing I am going to put the effort into learning Python;C; assembly.