Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 142.4.119.22Previously Malicious

IP Address: 142.4.119.22Previously Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

SSH

Tags

Users and Groups Read Password Secrets Human SSH Brute Force Download Operation 4 Shell Commands System File Modification Outgoing Connection Download File Download and Execute Successful SSH Login DNS Query Access Suspicious Domain SSH User Created

Associated Attack Servers

femboy.somebody.hk

52.220.97.245 159.138.85.160

Basic Information

IP Address

142.4.119.22

Domain

-

ISP

Peg Tech

Country

United States

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2021-10-12

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2021-10-14

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 SSH with the following credentials: root / *********** - Authentication policy: Reached Max Attempts (Part of a Brute Force Attempt)

SSH Brute Force Successful SSH Login

A possibly malicious Download Operation was detected 2 times

Download Operation

Process /usr/bin/wget attempted to access suspicious domains: femboy.somebody.hk and hwclouds-dns.com

DNS Query Access Suspicious Domain Outgoing Connection

Process /usr/bin/wget generated outgoing network traffic to: 159.138.85.160:80

Outgoing Connection

/root/pki.tgz was downloaded

Download File

The file /root/.pki/h64 was downloaded and executed

Download and Execute

Process /bin/bash attempted to access suspicious domains: xmr.flooder.org

DNS Query Access Suspicious Domain Outgoing Connection

The file /root/.pki/logind was downloaded and executed 6 times

Download and Execute

Process /bin/bash generated outgoing network traffic to: 52.220.97.245:80

Outgoing Connection

A user logged in using SSH with the following credentials: root / *********** - Authentication policy: Correct Password (Part of a Brute Force Attempt)

SSH Brute Force Successful SSH Login

System file /etc/group- was modified 9 times

System File Modification

System file /etc/gshadow- was modified 9 times

System File Modification

User subzero was created with the password *********

User Created

System file /etc/passwd.329 was modified 9 times

System File Modification

System file /etc/passwd- was modified 9 times

System File Modification

System file /etc/passwd+ was modified 9 times

System File Modification

System file /etc/passwd.322 was modified

System File Modification

Connection was closed due to timeout