Google Calendar RAT is a PoC of Command&Control (C2) over Google Calendar Events, This tool has been developed for those circumstances where it is difficult to create an entire red teaming infrastructure.
To use GRC, only a Gmail account is required. The script creates a ‘Covert Channel’ by exploiting the event descriptions in Google Calendar. The target will connect directly to Google.”
It could be considered as a layer 7 application Covert Channel (but some friends would say it cannot be 🙂 very thanks to my mates “Tortellini”
GCR attempt to connect to a valid shared Google Calendar link and after generating a unique ID check for any yet-to-be-executed commands.
If it is not able to find any command, it creates a new one (fixed to “whoami”) as a proof of connection. Every event is composed by two part:
3. The Description, which contains the command to execute and the base64 encoded output using the pipe symbol as separator “|”
Focusing specifically on the network aspect, the only connections established will be to Google’s servers, making the connection appear completely legitimate. Let’s check with process hacker:
which results in this
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