SSH LLM HONEYPOT CAUGHT A REAL THREAT ACTOR

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A Beelzebub LLM-powered SSH honeypot successfully detected a genuine threat actor who downloaded Perl backdoor scripts from a compromised Joomla site. The attacker attempted to establish IRC-based command-and-control (C&C) connections using "rootbox PerlBot v2.0" on Undernet channels #rootbox and #c0d3rs-TeaM. Their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) included downloading malware to /tmp, attempting to escalate privileges with sudo, and deploying botnet agents that connected to ix1.undernet.org:6667 for C&C operations. Security teams can utilize LLM honeypots to gather real-time threat intelligence and disrupt botnets by analyzing malware configurations and reporting C&C infrastructure to hosting providers.