Monetizing Botnets For People With No Morals

[v0x]

Over 20 Ways to Monetize Botnets For People With No Morals
Written by v0x

Here are over 20 great ways to monetize your botnets. I threw in a few general cybercrime/hacking/blackhat internet marketing money making methods too that relate to botnets. This was originally made for people deep into botnets, so you might not know some of the terms, just ask. Also, it was written sloppily and sardonically, and I'm too lazy to change it. Enjoy.



PPI (they dont always ruin your bot dumbass, maybe you should try TESTING THE PAYLOAD FIRST YOU RETARD)
Fake AV's (Makes lots of money, still converts well; remember to get a shady payment processor; dont use paypal, kids)
PPC clicking (all sites that dont have captcha's, unless you have a captcha breaker/pay a bunch of bangladeshi's salaries)
Ad clicking (anything but adsense, dumbass. perform tons of clicks on competitor sites' adsense/adwords for extra blackmail $$$)
Page visits (pay per impression, good method, good $$$)
CPA fraud (auto-fill out CPA forms, software can be created to do this; or cookie stuffing is a good $$$ maker; also, framing)
Launder money (Someone's gotta do it, why not you)
Sell logs (unparsed, for lazy people. I've seen people interested in 100mb of logs for $120, but that seems high to me)
Sell installs (obviously dont install shit or other bots)
Sell accounts/cc's/fullz (make good money, just dont get ripped/fedded, resell them multiple times for lulz & $$$)
Sell SOCKS/VPN (no brainer, try logging all the traffic too for extra $$$)
Sell hosting (bullet proof hosting for questionable shit, botnets, crazy porn, etc. Steal the botnets for extra $$$)
Sell roots (In the form of RDP's or SSH root login's; keep a backdoor on it for more $$$)
Sell traffic (tell buyers it's real people, who cares)
Rent botnet (better fuckin secure that shit before rental)
Dialers (get a 900 number from a company in s. america or caribbean; alternatively start your own telco company, and sell other people numbers + use it as a shell company and money launderer)
DDoS service ($100/day is standard, varies per hour and per target, dont hit any .gov sites ya idiot)
DDoS ransom (remember to do it while a big sale is on for extra $$$)
Blackmail (why not? steal files, gather evidence, make the payoff)
File ransom (gpcode style. remember to be extra secure, or AV companies will fuck you in the ass)
Spam Service (for other hackers who want to spread, p&d, send a political message [lol ron paul] etc.)
Spam Promotion (for affiliates like canadian pharm, fake luxury goods, risky porn, pirated software)
Pump & Dump (Steal several broker accounts and use them, or spam p&d)
Botting (for games, online poker, anything that makes $$$. sometimes requires 1337 c0d1n9 sk1llz)
Run software for $$$ (use Gomez peer, run multiple instances on every bot, remember to refer each other for more $$$)
Cashout accounts (better have experience or know someone who does, or you're screwed)
Downloading (from rapidshare to make more rs points, from affiliate download sites for $$$)
Link clicking (go crazy. linkbucks, linkbee, urlcash etc.)


Please thank me if you use any of these methods.

[ThaRevenant]

Hey v0x. A lot of your topics and posts have been great, but I'm somewhat lost on this one. I'm no coder or hacker, but I'm trying to learn some hacking on linux distros by reading and self-teaching. Could you explain how swim could use some of the bots you mentioned for monetary profit?

An example is how could a bot accomplish number 19. Blackmail? I'd think there would need to be a human to first hack into said-computer, or are there really bots that automatically do all the dirty work? Sorry if I'm being indirect or unclear.

[Akagi]

Here's a book on the subject for people that won't bitch out and tl;dr, which shouldn't be people interested in the subject.

Inside the SPAM Cartel (http://www.sendspace.com/file/a7f031)

[v0x]

Yea, a couple of those are not ways to monetize bots, but things that bots make easier to monetize. When you have a botnet, you have access to thousand's of people's personal info, and sometimes their deep, dark secrets. Write a program or script to mass harvest the info, download it onto your bots, and you've got literally gigabytes of blackmailable material (i.e. - grab all of a certain file type or all files containing a certain word, and have it upload them to your FTP server; a simple version of this can even be done in batch).
Put together evidence, find out who to send it to that would damage the mark the most, write up the note, and wait for the money. Of course, blackmail is extremely risky (cops can get involved, the person could hunt you down, etc.), so remember to use multiple layers of proxies, and launder the money when you get it. Any more questions?

[ThaRevenant]

Hm, alright. Thanks a lot v0x. When I posted that, I didn't really do any research on bots but I understand it better now.

I also have two more questions to bother you with:

1. Do you know any or heard of any botnets that could help me with online poker games?
2. How could you use a 900 number (number 16. Dialers) with a botnet illegally and gather your money? As far as I know, you need a service providing you with that premium phone number/line which will take 40 cents off your dollar. Know or have access to this question and then some? (Google'd my ass off and couldn't find anything.)

[v0x]

1. Well, what I had in mind was setting some type of system where each bot has an account at a popular poker site, and a poker bot, and it silently plays poker for you using the poker bot software (small winnings per bot, would really add up, and make quite a bit of money). This would take a ton of work and lots of time and development though, probably beyond the scope of what you and I know. However, it is a definite possibility, so don't let me dissuade you from trying to do something like this.

2. Well, unfortunately dialers only work on people who leave their modem on, or people who have dialup. You buy or rent a premium number from an offshore telco company. Typically, they charge something insane like $100 per call or $25 per minute. At that point, even 70 cents off your dollar isn't bad, especially when you have thousands of bots infected with a dialer. A dialer is (as you seem to know) a program that repeatedly dials your offshore premium number. The offshore telco company tells the person's telephone company how many minutes they were on the premium number, and the offshore telco gets paid by the person's telephone company. Now, I'm not sure if they send the money after the person pays this outrageous bill, or before the person even gets their bill, but either way you can make quite a bit, even with just one person. Now, if the person denies making the calls, either their telephone company justs marks it up as fraud and writes it off on their taxes (if they already sent your offshore telco the money), or they just dont pay you. Either way, whenever the money eventually gets to the offshore telco, they take 30% - 60% commission off the top and give you the rest. Sometimes they charge a monthly fee too, it depends. Sorry about my lack of knowledge in this area, I have never directly used dialers, so all this info is coming from friends who have, and articles about dialers. Although they were much more profitable back when everyone had modems & dialup, today they're still not too bad of a money earner.

[ThaRevenant]

Okay... Thanks a lot for the info v0x. I'd be thanking you if I could.

I'm going to do some research on dialers and these telco companies. I've read an article in the past where a woman knocked on someones home, claimed their car broke down and their cell phone was dead or something and they wanted to call their husband to pick her up and ended the call in a few minutes, and a month later the guy whose phone was used gets a phone bill costing hundreds. The way I perceive it is the telco company charges the phone company and the phone company charges the guy. Sounds rather lucrative and I've taken interest since the times I saw it on The Real Hustle. Probably physically doing it rather then trying to let a bot do it sounds like a better income (despite having to be un-lazy to do it).

If you have any more info, such as names of the telco companies your friends used, please PM me it so the thread doesn't go off topic. If not I'm googling it anyways (first thing in the morning).