Cobalt Stike Beacon Detected – 104[.]168[.]247[.]31:8443

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 2021-11-13T08:06:14.663939

Cobalt Strike
Cobalt Strike

General Information

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Cloud Provider
Cloud Region
Service
Domainshostwindsdns[.]com
Hostnameshwsrv-914515[.]hostwindsdns[.]com
HTTP Host104[.]168[.]247[.]31
ISPHostwinds LLC.
ORGHostwinds Seattle
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 SERVERGoogle Frontend
HTTP SITEMAPN/A
HTTP SITEMAP HASHN/A
HTTP TITLEN/A
LOCATION (AREA CODE)N/A
LOCATION (CITY)Seattle
LOCATION (COUNTRY CODE)US
LOCATION (COUNTRY NAME)United States
LOCATION (LATITUDE)47.60621
LOCATION (LONGITUDE)-122.33207
LOCATION (POSTAL CODE)N/A
SSL SERIAL
SSL EXPIREDN/A
SSL FINGERPRINT (SHA1)8ac37430eac5d9ed06b29610c479a568e8c488e8
SSL ISSUED20211028024632Z
SSL EXPIRES20221028024632Z
SSL CYPHERECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
SSL VERSIONTLSv1/SSLv3
SSL TRUST (REVOKED)N/A
TAGSself-signed


Cobalt Strike Beacon Information

Beacon TypeHTTPS
http-get.clientAccept: application/xhtml+xml, image/*, application/xml, Accept-Language: xh, Accept-Encoding: br, *, _JKid=, Cookie
http-post.clientAccept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, application/xml, Accept-Language: pt, Accept-Encoding: *, compress, _OZQPMSED
DNS Beacon MaxDNSN/A
DNS Beacon IdleN/A
Beacon Jitter40
dns-beacon.strategy_fail_seconds-1
dns-beacon.strategy_rotate_seconds-1
dns-beacon.strategy_fail_x-1
HTTP GET URI104[.]168[.]247[.]31,/design/v1[.]38/3VY7PX5BDRR
HTTP POST URI/Start/v1.6/X4KKJA4PNL
Max GET Size2099252
Port8443
post-ex.spawnto_x64%windir%\sysnative\svchost[.]exe -k netsvc
post-ex.spawnto_x86%windir%\syswow64\svchost[.]exe -k netsvc
process-inject.startrwx4
process-inject.userwx32
process-inject.allocator1
proxy.behavior2 (Use IE settings)
sleeptime10
useragent_headerMozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
uses_cookies1
process-inject.executentdll:RtlUserThreadStart, CreateThread, NtQueueApcThread-s, CreateRemoteThread, RtlCreateUserThread
WatermarkN/A
Beacon Stage Cleanup1