Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 197.57.121.167Malicious

IP Address: 197.57.121.167Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

SMB

Tags

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

Associated Attack Servers

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

196.219.95.172

Basic Information

IP Address

197.57.121.167

Domain

-

ISP

-

Country

Egypt

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-06-11

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-06-11

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

C:\yosTcOPA.exe was downloaded

Download File

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

Execute from Share

c:\windows\system32\services.exe installed and started \\server-backup\c$\yostcopa.exe as a service named oexA 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: Administrator - Authentication policy: Previously Approved User 4 times

Successful SMB Login

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

Download File

Service oexA was stopped

Service Stop

C:\GEaeemii.exe was downloaded

Download File

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

Service Creation Service Start

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

Execute from Share

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

DNS Query Access Suspicious Domain

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

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI2682\_ctypes.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\temp\_mei2682\_ctypes.pyd

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI2682\_multiprocessing.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI2682\_hashlib.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI2682\win32event.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI2682\win32api.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI2682\_mssql.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI2682\Crypto.Cipher._ARC4.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI2682\Crypto.Cipher._DES.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI2682\Crypto.Util.strxor.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI2682\Crypto.Cipher._DES3.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe

Download and Execute

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

System File Modification

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

DNS Query Access Suspicious Domain

Process c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe generated outgoing network traffic to: 192.168.0.10:445, 192.168.0.11:1433, 192.168.0.11:445, 192.168.0.12:1433, 192.168.0.12:445, 192.168.0.13:1433, 192.168.0.13:445, 192.168.0.14:1433, 192.168.0.14:445, 192.168.0.15:1433, 192.168.0.15:445, 192.168.0.16:1433, 192.168.0.16:445, 192.168.0.17:1433, 192.168.0.17:445, 192.168.0.18:1433, 192.168.0.18:445, 192.168.0.19:1433, 192.168.0.19:445, 192.168.0.1:1433, 192.168.0.1:445, 192.168.0.20:1433, 192.168.0.20:445, 192.168.0.21:1433, 192.168.0.21:445, 192.168.0.22:445, 192.168.0.23:445, 192.168.0.24:445, 192.168.0.25:445, 192.168.0.26:445, 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, 192.168.0.5:445, 192.168.0.6:445, 192.168.0.8:1433, 192.168.0.8:445 and 192.168.0.9:445

Process c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe scanned port 445 on 25 IP Addresses

Port 445 Scan Port 1433 Scan

Process c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe scanned port 445 on 15 IP Addresses

Port 445 Scan Port 1433 Scan

Process c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe scanned port 1433 on 25 IP Addresses

Port 445 Scan Port 1433 Scan

Process c:\windows\ojfmjab.exe scanned port 1433 on 15 IP Addresses

Port 445 Scan Port 1433 Scan

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