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Chalubo

aka ChaChaDDoS

Sophos describes this malware as a DDoS bot, with its name originating from ChaCha-Lua-bot due to its use of ChaCha cipher and Lua.

Chalubo, also known as ChaChaDDoS, is a Linux malware family.

Background

Sophos characterizes this malware as a DDoS bot whose name derives from ChaCha-Lua-bot, reflecting its reliance on the ChaCha cipher and Lua. It comes in variants for several architectures and reuses code drawn from XorDDoS and Mirai.

Source: Malpedia (Fraunhofer FKIE).