Do you want a rat?

In a dark room only illuminated by the light of the monitor on the table with heavy noises from the cooling fan in the background as the boy moved his fingers across the keyboard in a chaotic order, his mouse moved in his right hand as if it wants to escape an imaginary cat. The typing on the keyboard increased in speed and noise, while the movement of his mouse slowed down.

„Come on. Come on! He should be dead damn it! How much fucking HP got he?!“ Raised the boy his voice from a mutter as he took his hand from the mouse and slammed down, hard. „Fuck! Shit! T-hat hurts!“Cried he out as pain eloped him in an instance. Before he could curse further he heard a heavy knock on his door.

„Gerry, are you awake already? School will begin soon!“Called Gerry‘s mother out to him. Groaning at the thought of going to school, he got up from his chair and made himself ready. „Yeah, yeah, mom, I won‘ t be late again!“

„I hope not, else you can forget playing with your computer!“Said his mother which the boy ignored as he heard her many times saying the same. Fuck School!

And so with a heavy heart he went to school.

Another boring day. Gerry thought while he tried to stop his yawn that wanted to escape his mouth. He looked to his right and saw that his classmate was already sleeping without a care. That guy… A little glance at the teacher and he knew already if the piercing glare directed at his classmate was not a hint to his classmate misfortune, that will befall him later after the end of the class. Have fun cleaning the blackboard later.

Fortunately, his savior, the bell, gave the way for his escape. As if resurrected from the dead, he took his backpack and ran with his other classmate out of the classroom. Some of his classmates heaved a sigh in relief. Math, such a pain the exams will be.

While his feet dragged him to the cafeteria, he saw at the last turn the girl he liked which brought him to stop and just stare at her, her carefully maintained blond hair, her beautiful gray colored eyes, her small sweet lips which he really wanted to kiss since he had a crush on her, together she was perfect for him. So lost in thought, he did not notice the hand which grabbed him on his shoulder, to which he jumped. “Sorry, Ms. Carol wanted me to clean the blackboard. What pain man!” Came the voice from his friend as Gerry slowly calmed himself down. “Really, fuck you, Lucas, don’t scare me like that!”

“Did I scare you? Man, can you jump high!” Lucas laughed at him as he just shook his head.

After Lucas finished laughing at him, he asked Gerry, “so, did you kill the bastard?”

“No, he fucked me totally. Too much damage in just three hits. Couldn’t take his health less than half down, before he raped my corpse.” Gerry ended his answer with a sigh as frustration overcame him when he thought about the fight again.

“Shit, that class is OP as hell. Sorry, I couldn’t help you at all, man he killed me in one blow.” His friend told him as he leaned on the wall, obviously annoyed as well.

“Well, even together we would die easily to him, fuck.” Gerry tried to remember the skills the enemy player used on his character.

“Hey, let’s hack his account.” Lucas words received a blank stare from Gerry. “I got a RAT from a friend who bought it from the Darknet.”

“What’s a fucking rat?” Questioned Gerry him as he tried to understand what his friend meant.

“It stands for ‘Remote Access Trojan’, a tool we could use to steal his account, just imagine it! His expression when he cannot log into his account!”

“Okay. Alright, so how can we steal his account with a ‘rat’?” Asked Gerry not believing his friend.

“It’s simple, we do it like the Greeks did; send him a ‘nude photo’ of some girl which will be our trojan horse. Then we can use the keylogger function of the RAT to log his keystrokes until we have his password.” Lucas grin widened by the end of his master plan.

“Shit, really? How does it work exactly?” Gerry could not hide his curiosity as he leaned a little bit forward in anticipation.

“The general gist is that you have two components, a client, and a server, you use the client as a command and control center while the server will infect his computer. After that, the server will run persistently in the background while it tries to connect to the client.”

“Shouldn’t it be in reverse? I mean shouldn’t our command center not be the server and our trojan the client?” That perplexed Gerry as he asked his friend.

“eh, they did use this model back then, but after the widespread use of firewalls, I think, they then used the ‘reverse-socket connection’ to bypass the software firewall.”

“Ah, yeah right, they shouldn’t be able to connect because the incoming connections should be blocked by the firewall. Eh, cool, didn’t know that.” Muttered Gerry as he thought about the way connections are established. “So, should be easy then to fuck him up?

“Easy peasy lemon squeezy! I just need to configure my router so it can port forward my connections to the client.”

“But how can we actually contact him? I mean how do you want to send the trojan to him?” Gerry voiced his concern for the important step of all.

“That simple enough, just infect one of the girls in our class, then use her Facebook profile to bait him. The last step is just sending the trojan in form of a ‘nude picture’ of her.” Without blinking his friend tried to reassure him, but instead, Gerry looked at his friend as if he were crazy.

“Fuck, you’re crazy man. That’s insane!” At the thought of infecting the girls in his class, he shuddered in terror while sweating a little bit.

“Chill, dude, it’s easy and no one will find out. I will even use a VPN for it, okay? I just need you to chat with one of the girls and send her a trojan.”

“B-but what’s with the Anti-Virus? Let’s just grind more, then we can easy hunt him down.” He stumbled on his first word as he tried to change his friend’s mind on the matter.

“Haha, naive! Man, what Anti-Virus, it’s FUD, fully undetectable. The RAT came with an inbuilt FUD Crypter service.” His friend laughed at his ‘naive’ question while Gerry furrowed his brow as he tried to understand how it could be fully undetectable.

Before he could voice his other concerns, the bell rung. Both of them went to the classroom, however, at the door to the classroom his friend stopped him only to whisper him, “just chat a girl up, send her my trojan you will get in Skype and then we will profit, just kidding, no then we will steal the bastard’s account.”

In his home, Gerry went directly to his computer and booted it up. Not long he logged in Skype, at first he checked his messages and there he saw that his friend Lucas did send him the trojan with a reminder which reads, “don’t start it, just download it and send it to some girl, then give me heads up.”

Sighing in defeat he started the download of the file, while he logged into facebook and chatted with several girls as he planned his approach how to send the trojan, which was luckily disguised as a legitimate PDF. Perhaps a copy of homework? Yeah, that could work.

Not long he found the perfect opportunity to send the trojan, but he hesitated and thought, wait let’s just ask Lucas. He sent a message to Lucas, “Lucas, are you really sure that it’s secure?” His answer, “yeah, absolutely, just do your job and I mine.”

I hope this doesn’t bite me in the ass, shit, who am I kidding. His last resistance broken, and with a heavy heart he sent the trojan to a girl who he knew was shy and had feelings for him.