Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 188.50.20.8Malicious

IP Address: 188.50.20.8Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

MSSQL

Tags

DNS Query Successful SMB Login SMB Null Session Login File Operation By CMD System File Modification Execute from Share Download and Execute MSSQL Download File Port 1433 Scan Access Share Access Suspicious Domain Service Deletion Service Creation CMD Service Start SMB Share Connect Port 445 Scan Service Stop SMB

Associated Attack Servers

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

Basic Information

IP Address

188.50.20.8

Domain

-

ISP

-

Country

Saudi Arabia

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-09-16

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-09-18

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: admin - Authentication policy: Reached Max Attempts

Successful SMB Login

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Creation Service Start

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

Download File

A user logged in using SMB with the following username: admin - Authentication policy: Previously Approved User 7 times

Successful SMB Login

Service rTZQ was stopped

Service Stop

C:\GgTWvbtF.exe was downloaded

Download File

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Creation Service Start

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\tmp.vbs was downloaded

Download File

Service NRzN was stopped

Service Stop

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

Access Suspicious Domain DNS Query

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

Download and Execute

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

System File Modification

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

Access Suspicious Domain DNS Query

Process c:\windows\qgcgo.exe generated outgoing network traffic to: 192.168.0.10:1433, 192.168.0.10:445, 192.168.0.11:1433, 192.168.0.11:445, 192.168.0.12:445, 192.168.0.13:445, 192.168.0.14:445, 192.168.0.15:445, 192.168.0.16:445, 192.168.0.17:445, 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, 192.168.0.4:1433, 192.168.0.4:445, 192.168.0.5:1433, 192.168.0.5:445, 192.168.0.6:1433, 192.168.0.6:445, 192.168.0.7:1433, 192.168.0.7:445, 192.168.0.8:1433, 192.168.0.8:445, 192.168.0.9:1433 and 192.168.0.9:445

Process c:\windows\qgcgo.exe scanned port 445 on 17 IP Addresses

Port 1433 Scan Port 445 Scan

Process c:\windows\qgcgo.exe scanned port 445 on 11 IP Addresses

Port 1433 Scan Port 445 Scan

Process c:\windows\qgcgo.exe scanned port 1433 on 17 IP Addresses

Port 1433 Scan Port 445 Scan

Process c:\windows\qgcgo.exe scanned port 1433 on 11 IP Addresses

Port 1433 Scan Port 445 Scan

Connection was closed due to user inactivity

Associated Files

C:\aBLnjkkk.exe

SHA256: 3c2fe308c0a563e06263bbacf793bbe9b2259d795fcc36b953793a7e499e7f71

56320 bytes