Cobalt Stike Beacon Detected – 138[.]68[.]225[.]209:8443

Cobalt Strike Beacon Detection Alerts

The Information provided at the time of posting was detected as “Cobalt Strike”. Depending on when you are viewing this article, it may no longer be the case and could be determined as being a false positive. Please do your own additional validation. – RedPacket Security

TimeStamp 2021-11-19T09:04:39.254180

Cobalt Strike
Cobalt Strike

General Information

1516765916
Cloud ProviderDigitalOcean
Cloud Regionus-ca
ServiceN/A
DomainsN/A
HostnamesN/A
HTTP Host138[.]68[.]225[.]209
ISPDigitalOcean, LLC
ORGDigitalOcean, LLC
OSN/A
HTTPN/A
HTTP HTML HASHN/A
HTTP LOCATION/
HTTP REDIRECTS
HTTP ROBOTSN/A
HTTP ROBOTS HASHN/A
HTTP SECURITY.TXTN/A
HTTP SECURITY.TXT HASHN/A
HTTP SERVERN/A
HTTP SITEMAPN/A
HTTP SITEMAP HASHN/A
HTTP TITLEN/A
LOCATION (AREA CODE)N/A
LOCATION (CITY)Santa Clara
LOCATION (COUNTRY CODE)US
LOCATION (COUNTRY NAME)United States
LOCATION (LATITUDE)37.3483
LOCATION (LONGITUDE)-121.9844
LOCATION (POSTAL CODE)N/A
SSL SERIAL
SSL EXPIREDN/A
SSL FINGERPRINT (SHA1)273950206e1ad48f3f35c9ab01793c16f5e3b74e
SSL ISSUED20211027032023Z
SSL EXPIRES20220425032023Z
SSL CYPHERECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
SSL VERSIONTLSv1/SSLv3
SSL TRUST (REVOKED)N/A
TAGScloud, self-signed


Cobalt Strike Beacon Information

Beacon TypeHTTPS
http-get.clientAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0[.]9,*/*;q=0[.]8, Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, Cookie: MUID=6974BB2C30B449E0A015DA81108BCD08;, query, pgArea=header
http-post.clientAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;, Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, Cookie: MUID=6974BB2C30B449E0A015DA81108BCD08;, query, pgArea=header
DNS Beacon MaxDNSN/A
DNS Beacon IdleN/A
Beacon Jitter12
dns-beacon.strategy_fail_secondsN/A
dns-beacon.strategy_rotate_secondsN/A
dns-beacon.strategy_fail_xN/A
HTTP GET URI138[.]68[.]225[.]209,/Search/en-US
HTTP POST URI/search/en-US
Max GET Size2097152
Port8443
post-ex.spawnto_x64%windir%\sysnative\calc[.]exe
post-ex.spawnto_x86%windir%\syswow64\calc[.]exe
process-inject.startrwx64
process-inject.userwx32
process-inject.allocatorN/A
proxy.behavior2 (Use IE settings)
sleeptime28748
useragent_headerMozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.86 Safari/537.36
uses_cookies1
process-inject.executentdll:RtlUserThreadStart, CreateThread, NtQueueApcThread-s, CreateRemoteThread, RtlCreateUserThread
Watermark1496871632
Beacon Stage CleanupN/A