Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 45.238.18.26Malicious

IP Address: 45.238.18.26Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

SMB

Tags

Persistency - Logon Successful SMB Login Listening SMB Service Deletion Outgoing Connection Service Creation NetBIOS SMB Null Session Login SMB Share Connect Download and Execute Service Start

Associated Attack Servers

209.85.133.114

Basic Information

IP Address

45.238.18.26

Domain

-

ISP

-

Country

Argentina

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2022-12-05

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-02-23

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 from SERVER with the following username: administrator - Authentication policy: Reached Max Attempts

Successful SMB Login

The file C:\WINDOWS\lsass.exe was downloaded and executed

Download and Execute

The file C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsasvc.exe was downloaded and executed 2 times

Download and Execute

Process c:\windows\lsass.exe generated outgoing network traffic to: 209.85.133.114:25

Outgoing Connection

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

Service Start Service Creation

c:\windows\lsass.exe set the command line c:\windows\lsass.exe to run using Persistency - Logon

Persistency - Logon

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

Service Start Service Creation

Process c:\windows\system32\lsasvc.exe started listening on ports: 186

Listening

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

Successful SMB Login

Connection was closed due to user inactivity

Associated Files

C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsasvc.exe

SHA256: 6beb9eb9c18990e788773b56bd0f00518177bcd228f59df23e329a1e967644ed

18977 bytes

C:\WINDOWS\lsass.exe

SHA256: a29d02251f54567edb1d32f7c17ce4c04d5c54e317eb3b2bea2a068da728e59a

33128 bytes