Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 178.176.19.185Malicious

IP Address: 178.176.19.185Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

SMB

Tags

Outgoing Connection Download and Execute Service Creation MSRPC Service Start Service Deletion SMB CMD Successful SMB Login

Associated Attack Servers

36.93.28.180 120.7.85.156 202.88.170.234

Basic Information

IP Address

178.176.19.185

Domain

-

ISP

PJSC MegaFon

Country

Russian Federation

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2022-11-27

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-02-21

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

Successful SMB Login

A user logged in using SMB with the following username: administrator - Authentication policy: Previously Approved User 2 times

Successful SMB Login

c:\windows\system32\services.exe installed and started mshta.exe as a service named AC04 under service group None

Service Start Service Creation

Service MSIServer was started

Service Start

Process c:\windows\system32\msiexec.exe generated outgoing network traffic to: 120.7.85.156:14807, 202.88.170.234:17509 and 36.93.28.180:17059

Outgoing Connection

The file C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI2.tmp was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\installer\msi2.tmp

Download and Execute

c:\windows\system32\services.exe installed and started mshta.exe as a service named AC05 under service group None

Service Start Service Creation

The file C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI7.tmp was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\system32\msiexec.exe

Download and Execute

Connection was closed due to user inactivity