While performing routine security research, one of our threat analysts discovered the latest version of a Command and Control (C2) script, which is referred to as F-Automatical within the script’s code and was commonly known as FoxAuto in older versions. This is the seventh version of this automatic C2 script that is developed and distributed by a threat group called Anonymous Fox. This script is exactly as advertised: a script that automates tasks performed by a threat actor on a compromised web server. While this script is not used to exploit a vulnerability, it is a post-exploitation script that is run from a location under the threat actor’s control and can be used to maintain persistence or upload additional malware on a website that the threat actor has already accessed through an exploited vulnerability.
