Source
https://sansec.io/research/cronrat
Manipulated code sample, they say they cleaned it up…
https://gist.github.com/gwillem/fbe3e6b98e2e10d7f1f271ca4b6e813f#file-cronrat-annotated-sh
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They say that since the taskcis scheduled for February 31st it never gets executed. But how does it get executed?
I am also not entirely sure but it gets remotely executed
From https://sansec.io/research/cronrat
Not all parts are disclosed to testing, this is not possible with the given code.