Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 102.41.110.54Malicious

IP Address: 102.41.110.54Malicious

This IP address attempted an attack on a machine in our threat sensors network

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

MSSQL

Tags

Driver Configuration Download and Execute Execute from Share Driver Creation DNS Query Listening File Operation By CMD Successful SMB Login Service Creation Access Share CMD Outgoing Connection Port 445 Scan MSSQL SMB Null Session Login Access Suspicious Domain Service Deletion Download File Driver Start SMB Share Connect Service Start SMB Service Stop Service Configuration System File Modification

Associated Attack Servers

info.ackng.com info.beahh.com ip.42.pl w.beahh.com

192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.5

Basic Information

IP Address

102.41.110.54

Domain

-

ISP

-

Country

Egypt

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-09-02

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-09-03

What is Akamai Guardicore Segmentation
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is a data center and cloud security solution that protects the organization's core assets, using flexible, quickly deployed and easy to understand micro-segmentation controls. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation generates in-context security incidents, with details on attacker tools and techniques, that help IR teams prioritize incident investigation and reduce dwell time. Learn More

Attack Flow

A user logged in using SMB with the following username: Administrator - Authentication policy: Correct Password

Successful SMB Login

C:\NmWLXbpn.exe was downloaded

Download File

nmwlxbpn.exe was executed from the remote share \\server-backup\c$

Execute from Share

c:\windows\system32\services.exe installed and started \\server-backup\c$\nmwlxbpn.exe as a service named ibqE under service group None

Service Start Service Creation

Service ibqE was stopped

Service Stop

c:\windows\system32\services.exe installed and started cmd as a service named PaJx under service group None

Service Start Service Creation

C:\windows\temp\msInstall.exe was downloaded

Download File

c:\windows\system32\services.exe installed and started cmd as a service named YvHo under service group None

Service Start Service Creation

c:\windows\system32\services.exe installed and started system32\drivers\tcpip6.sys as a service named Tcpip6 under service group None

Service Creation Driver Start

System file C:\WINDOWS\security\Database\secedit.sdb was modified

System File Modification

c:\windows\system32\netsh.exe installed and started %systemroot%\system32\6to4svc.dll as a service named 6to4 under service group NetworkService

Service Start Service Creation

c:\windows\system32\services.exe installed and started system32\drivers\smb.sys as a service named Smb under service group None

Service Creation Driver Start

c:\windows\system32\services.exe installed system32\drivers\tunmp.sys as a service named tunmp under service group None

Service Creation

Process netsvcs Service Group attempted to access suspicious domains: _LDAP._TCP

Access Suspicious Domain DNS Query

Process NetworkService Service Group started listening on ports: 65531, 65532 and 65533

Listening

The file C:\WINDOWS\OZqUt.exe was downloaded and executed 2 times

Download and Execute

Process c:\windows\system32\mshta.exe attempted to access suspicious domains: w.beahh.com

Access Suspicious Domain DNS Query

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI5962\_ctypes.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ozqut.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI5962\_multiprocessing.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\temp\_mei5962\_multiprocessing.pyd

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI5962\_hashlib.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\temp\_mei5962\_hashlib.pyd

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI5962\_socket.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ozqut.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI5962\_ssl.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\temp\_mei5962\_ssl.pyd

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI5962\win32event.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ozqut.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI5962\pywintypes27.dll was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ozqut.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI5962\Crypto.Cipher._ARC4.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ozqut.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI5962\Crypto.Hash._MD4.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ozqut.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI5962\Crypto.Cipher._DES3.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\temp\_mei5962\crypto.cipher._des3.pyd

Download and Execute

System file C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\AutoRecover\88744D2A29102FC88ECF505DD2E984FC.mof was modified

System File Modification

Process c:\windows\ozqut.exe attempted to access suspicious domains: info.ackng.com, info.beahh.com and ip.42.pl

Access Suspicious Domain DNS Query Outgoing Connection

Process c:\windows\ozqut.exe generated outgoing network traffic to: 192.168.0.10:445, 192.168.0.12:445, 192.168.0.13:445, 192.168.0.14:445, 192.168.0.1:1433, 192.168.0.1:445, 192.168.0.2:1433, 192.168.0.2:445, 192.168.0.3:1433, 192.168.0.3:445, 192.168.0.4:445, 192.168.0.5:1433, 192.168.0.5:445, 192.168.0.6:445, 192.168.0.7:445, 192.168.0.8:445 and 192.168.0.9:445

Outgoing Connection

Process c:\windows\ozqut.exe scanned port 445 on 13 IP Addresses

Port 445 Scan

Connection was closed due to timeout

Associated Files

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 0b76a66bf0796a1b60dcf9fd2952c477d01ac09a9fe3e29ca3757fab466439e5

6967155 bytes

C:\Abrymldx.exe

SHA256: 3c2fe308c0a563e06263bbacf793bbe9b2259d795fcc36b953793a7e499e7f71

56320 bytes