Cobalt Stike Beacon Detected – 165[.]227[.]180[.]6:443

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 2022-04-29T15:37:05.128154

General Information

3.945564561970938e+41

Cloud Provider	DigitalOcean
Cloud Region	us-nj
Service	N/A
Domains	microsoft-essentials[.]com
Hostnames	update04[.]microsoft-essentials[.]com
HTTP Host	update04[.]microsoft-essentials[.]com
ISP	DigitalOcean, LLC
ORG	DigitalOcean, LLC
OS	N/A
HTTP	N/A
HTTP HTML HASH	N/A
HTTP LOCATION	/
HTTP REDIRECTS
HTTP ROBOTS	N/A
HTTP ROBOTS HASH	N/A
HTTP SECURITY.TXT	N/A
HTTP SECURITY.TXT HASH	N/A
HTTP SERVER	Apache
HTTP SITEMAP	N/A
HTTP SITEMAP HASH	N/A
HTTP TITLE	N/A
LOCATION (AREA CODE)	N/A
LOCATION (CITY)	Clifton
LOCATION (COUNTRY CODE)	US
LOCATION (COUNTRY NAME)	United States
LOCATION (LATITUDE)	40.8344
LOCATION (LONGITUDE)	-74.1377
LOCATION (POSTAL CODE)	N/A
SSL SERIAL
SSL EXPIRED	N/A
SSL FINGERPRINT (SHA1)	726fdd713a61eb2cdd7ef14db6ca7de2a9da3a71
SSL ISSUED	20220425202519Z
SSL EXPIRES	20220724202518Z
SSL CYPHER	ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
SSL VERSION	TLSv1/SSLv3
SSL TRUST (REVOKED)	N/A
TAGS	cloud

Cobalt Strike Beacon Information

Beacon Type	N/A
http-get.client
http-post.client
DNS Beacon MaxDNS	N/A
DNS Beacon Idle	N/A
Beacon Jitter	N/A
dns-beacon.strategy_fail_seconds	N/A
dns-beacon.strategy_rotate_seconds	N/A
dns-beacon.strategy_fail_x	N/A
HTTP GET URI
HTTP POST URI	N/A
Max GET Size	N/A
Port	N/A
post-ex.spawnto_x64
post-ex.spawnto_x86
process-inject.startrwx	N/A
process-inject.userwx	N/A
process-inject.allocator	N/A
proxy.behavior	N/A
sleeptime	N/A
useragent_header	N/A
uses_cookies	N/A
process-inject.execute
Watermark	N/A
Beacon Stage Cleanup	N/A