Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 103.138.5.52Malicious

IP Address: 103.138.5.52Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

MSSQL SMB

Tags

File Operation By CMD DNS Query Access Share Access Suspicious Domain Execute from Share Download File Service Stop Service Creation SMB Share Connect SMB Null Session Login Scheduled Task Creation SMB SMB Brute Force Service Start Service Deletion Successful SMB Login Download and Execute MSSQL Scheduled Task Run CMD

Associated Attack Servers

w.zz3r0.com

Basic Information

IP Address

103.138.5.52

Domain

-

ISP

-

Country

India

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2024-02-19

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2024-02-19

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 (Part of a Brute Force Attempt)

SMB Brute Force Successful SMB Login

C:\pxxOkgQx.exe was downloaded

Download File

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Execute from Share

A user logged in using SMB with the following username: Administrator - Authentication policy: Reached Max Attempts (Part of a Brute Force Attempt)

SMB Brute Force Successful SMB Login

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Download File

A user logged in using SMB with the following username: Administrator - Authentication policy: Previously Approved User (Part of a Brute Force Attempt) 3 times

SMB Brute Force Successful SMB Login

Service NtDB was stopped

Service Stop

A user logged in using SMB from NULL with the following username: Administrator - Authentication policy: Previously Approved User (Part of a Brute Force Attempt) 4 times

SMB Brute Force Successful SMB Login

Process c:\windows\system32\mshta.exe attempted to access suspicious domains: w.zz3r0.com 2 times

Access Suspicious Domain DNS Query

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

The file C:\WINDOWS\JkytoF.exe was downloaded and executed 3 times

Download and Execute

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Start Service Creation

Service VNxe was stopped

Service Stop

Connection was closed due to timeout

Associated Files

C:\NifQsutL.exe

SHA256: 02462c051aa4e27cf6359173c040a6e51f20172d4fcdfa2c11b6fb6a50107ab0

56320 bytes