IRC

Botnets whose C&C protocol is IRC

• Acebot, Agobot, Akbot, Apbot, Bagle, Coreflood, Dorkbot, Eggdrop, Forbot, GTbot, Hamweq, Illusion, Ircbot, Jrbot, Kaiten, Mocbot, Mytob, PickPocket, Polybot, PrettyPark, RBot, SDBot, Skynet, Slenfbot, SpyBot, Virut, Zapchast

Publications covering C&C protocol IRC

• Botnet command server hidden in Tor, Detection and classification of different botnet C&C channels, IRC bot for Android