CNCClientModule

This is the Command-And-Control communication program that I have written in Java, this was made near 2019.

Command-And-Control allows you to control multiple machines running a Linux-style operating system from one commanding machine.

Features

• Command server can send commands to be executed on all clients at once
• Displays the status of individual clients when sending commands
• Displays output for all clients individually when executing a command
• Clients automatically reconnect to command if the command server is offline for x time, or undergoes an update
• Kill function to terminate all clients
• Reconnection feature (Reconnect clients manually from command)
• Secure SHA256-RSA Keypair authentication between the server and the client to make sure unauthorized commands are not executed

Usage

To use the CNC system, simply type commands into the server console and it will be propagated to all clients

• "(LINUX TERMINAL COMMAND) - Sends the command to all connected clients and returns the output of each client. E.g, if you wanted to create a file called test.txt in the root directory of all clients, you'd simply type in "touch /root/test.txt" in the server console"

Custom global functions will start with a forward slash (/) and are listed below

• "/KILL" - Disconnect all clients attached to server
• "/RECONNECT" - Forces all clients to reconnect (and also to reobtain the server public key)
• "/LIST" - Lists all the clients connected to the command server
• "/INFO" - Returns the system information and statistics of all the clients connected to the command server

Todo

• Send commands to individual clients only (WIP)
• Start clients on system startup
• Two way authentication with the client acting as an authentication SOURCE

How To Use

• Build the CNCCommandModule
• Build the CNCClientModule after replacing the COMMANDIP and COMMANDPORT fields in Main.java with the respective ip and port of your command module
• Run the jars on the servers you want connected
• Done! (Simple right?)

Security

This system is NOT cryptographically secure but does have a system of verification to ensure that server Command requests are authentic. The current security implementation involves the client sending a KeyRequest to the server. The server will then send back a copy of its public key to the client. Authentic communication from the designated server will have a digital signature attached to it, and will be verified on the client side before commands are executed.

• Client sends a KeyRequest to the COMMANDIP, if accepted by the server, the server will send back a PublicKeyTransmission object.
• Client will check if the PublicKeyTransmission object was sent from the COMMANDIP, and will write the public key into a file.
• All commands sent from the command server will be digitally signed by its private key
• All commands to be executed on clients will be validated by using the public key, and only valid commands will execute on the client side
• The public and private keypairs use the SHA-256 hashing algorithm with RSA, which has not been compromised yet, unlike the SHA1 algorithm.

In addition to the above, the command server, once authenticated with a client, will continuously send authentication updates to a client, the moment the server gets turned off or can't be reached, clients will immediately be deauthenticated and will try to reauthenticate with command. This is useful in preventing man-in-the-middle attacks.

This system is however NOT fully cryptographically secure, and I advise against using this in applications where sensitive commands and information is involved.

Kryonet

This project uses the kryonet library from EsotericSoftware (https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/kryonet) Kryonet is an asynchronous communication library for Java built upon Java NIO and makes communication throughout this program seamless.