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Fall 2016. DVRs and IP cameras ship with telnet open and passwords printed on a sticker nobody changed. Someone publishes src.zip and the internet learns a new verb: `load`.
Briefing
You are not running Mirai, you are reading what your pots captured before your university pulled the RFC1918 ACL. Everything here is synthetic text matching public write-ups.
Your role
Graduate student maintaining telnet honeypots the week Mirai source dropped on a forum.
Objective
Prove from honeypot transcripts that infection is credential guessing, not an 0-day, and identify the loader phraseology.
Terminal environment
- user
- researcher
- host
- telnet-pot-07
- cwd
- /honeypot/mirai-era
- steps
- 3
Safety note. This is a safe reconstruction. All systems, files, hosts, credentials, and outputs are simulated. Do not use these techniques on systems you do not own or have explicit permission to test.