[Kristof]

Ok so I ask the question back in the old day's of hacking I remember using a RAT called Sub7 and NetBus how ever I don't ever recall having to portforward and use a DNS in order to use those RAT's you simply just downloaded it then created a server and viola your done! So how come the new popular RAT's such as DarkComet require all those extra steps?

[Washington]

Dynamic IP requires DNS, I think. And it's also for more anonymity.

[Kristof]

Dynamic IP requires DNS, I think. And it's also for more anonymity.

So what your saying is they portfoward and require DNS in order to stay more anonymous?

[Arbitrage]

So what your saying is they portfoward and require DNS in order to stay more anonymous?

No, they port forward because the RAT needs a way to get into your router to transmit the connection between your slaves and you. Learn some basic networking to understand.

[Kristof]

No, they port forward because the RAT needs a way to get into your router to transmit the connection between your slaves and you. Learn some basic networking to understand.

so how come sub7 and NetBus didn't need to do all that in order to work?

[tux1]

Old rats like netbus, back orifice, sub7, prorat. They all used direct connection, so once the target downloaded and ran the server you would then need to type in the ip in the rat client and connect to the slave. There are problems with this like: you can only do one at a time, you need to keep track of ips and also firewalls were getting a lot better so they weren't very effective. So instead people started designing rats that use what is called reverse connection. So instead of you connecting to the slaves, all the slaves connect to the central client (you).

So because of this newer rats you need to open ports to allow people to connect back to you.

[15khud3]

maybe because stuff nowadays is also evolving like in the cybersecurity

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wait I just noticed this was a very old thread already lmao