Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 41.33.172.139Malicious

IP Address: 41.33.172.139Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

MSSQL SMB

Tags

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

Associated Attack Servers

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

Basic Information

IP Address

41.33.172.139

Domain

-

ISP

-

Country

Egypt

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2022-12-27

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2024-01-17

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:\TmtqNSDQ.exe was downloaded

Download File

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Download File

Service jtoW was stopped

Service Stop

A user logged in using SMB with the following username: Administrator - Authentication policy: Previously Approved User 4 times

Successful SMB Login

C:\OgQFHVKr.exe was downloaded

Download File

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Start Service Creation

Service WNRB 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\KKeVNUM.exe was downloaded and executed 2 times

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI8802\python27.dll was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\kkevnum.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI8802\msvcr90.dll was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\kkevnum.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI8802\_ctypes.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\kkevnum.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI8802\_multiprocessing.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\kkevnum.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI8802\_hashlib.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\kkevnum.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI8802\_socket.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\kkevnum.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI8802\select.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\kkevnum.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI8802\Crypto.Cipher._ARC4.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\kkevnum.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI8802\Crypto.Cipher._DES.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\kkevnum.exe

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI8802\Crypto.Cipher._AES.pyd was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\kkevnum.exe

Download and Execute

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

System File Modification

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

Access Suspicious Domain DNS Query

Process c:\windows\kkevnum.exe generated outgoing network traffic to: 192.168.0.10:1433, 192.168.0.10:445, 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, 192.168.0.15:445, 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, 192.168.0.19:445, 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, 192.168.0.2:1433, 192.168.0.2:445, 192.168.0.3:1433, 192.168.0.3:445, 192.168.0.4:445, 192.168.0.5:1433, 192.168.0.5:445, 192.168.0.6:445, 192.168.0.7:445, 192.168.0.8:445, 192.168.0.9:1433 and 192.168.0.9:445

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

Port 1433 Scan Port 445 Scan

Process c:\windows\kkevnum.exe scanned port 445 on 14 IP Addresses

Port 1433 Scan Port 445 Scan

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

Port 1433 Scan Port 445 Scan

Process c:\windows\kkevnum.exe scanned port 1433 on 14 IP Addresses

Port 1433 Scan Port 445 Scan

Connection was closed due to timeout

Associated Files

C:\AaYfvmdB.exe

SHA256: 3c2fe308c0a563e06263bbacf793bbe9b2259d795fcc36b953793a7e499e7f71

56320 bytes