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Database Entry



Cobalt Strike


Vendor detections: 18


Intelligence 18 IOCs YARA 10 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: b151876e8b4405344dcbf1c7738be9f93f2cf2cc0cde9ba18d73fa443f460ecd
SHA3-384 hash: 6b31fa6de9dd9b839ca856133f2629ada7c318e13cada837f84b5e4840b02db56592d57aa0f06c7329b302526ccea7ee
SHA1 hash: ea0e48d2dededa100b57dc62a75baa60a8e32f57
MD5 hash: 5c74e515750a07cd1800406809bccdfe
humanhash: winter-hamper-sierra-wyoming
File name:file
Download: download sample
Signature Cobalt Strike
File size:73'802 bytes
First seen:2024-09-20 13:46:35 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Executable exe
MIME type:application/x-dosexec
imphash 481f47bbb2c9c21e108d65f52b04c448 (257 x Meterpreter, 93 x Metasploit, 33 x ShikataGaNai)
ssdeep 1536:IDlgtBH7PCMhK2x68SVoe7PsStwLZhOGwMb+KR0Nc8QsJq39:ltBTCMhKhVocsStiYe0Nc8QsC9
Threatray 117 similar samples on MalwareBazaar
TLSH T1FC73CF82EDC01425D1A5233D277137B9AA76F5F63505C2DA7A8CCDE8DBD18B092363C6
TrID 37.8% (.EXE) Win32 Executable MS Visual C++ (generic) (31206/45/13)
20.0% (.EXE) Microsoft Visual C++ compiled executable (generic) (16529/12/5)
12.7% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (10523/12/4)
7.9% (.DLL) Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (6578/25/2)
6.1% (.EXE) Win16 NE executable (generic) (5038/12/1)
Magika pebin
Reporter jstrosch
Tags:Cobalt Strike CobaltStrike exe Metasploit ReflectiveLoader


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jstrosch
Found at hxxp://89.197.154[.]116/Extension.exe by #subcrawl

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
399
Origin country :
US US
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Malware family:
meterpreter
ID:
1
File name:
file
Verdict:
Malicious activity
Analysis date:
2024-09-20 13:59:18 UTC
Tags:
meterpreter backdoor metasploit cobaltstrike

Note:
ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample
Verdict:
Malicious
Score:
99.9%
Tags:
Encryption Network Static Stealth
Result
Verdict:
Clean
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
Searching for the window
Connection attempt
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
cobalt lolbin microsoft_visual_cc overlay packed remote
Result
Verdict:
MALICIOUS
Details
Windows PE Executable
Found a Windows Portable Executable (PE) binary. Depending on context, the presence of a binary is suspicious or malicious.
Malware family:
Cobalt Strike
Verdict:
Malicious
Result
Threat name:
CobaltStrike, Metasploit, ReflectiveLoad
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj.evad
Score:
100 / 100
Signature
AI detected suspicious sample
Antivirus / Scanner detection for submitted sample
Antivirus detection for URL or domain
C2 URLs / IPs found in malware configuration
Contains functionality to detect sleep reduction / modifications
Found malware configuration
Machine Learning detection for sample
Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)
Multi AV Scanner detection for domain / URL
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Suricata IDS alerts for network traffic
Yara detected CobaltStrike
Yara detected Metasploit Payload
Yara detected Powershell download and execute
Yara detected ReflectiveLoader
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
Threat name:
Win32.Backdoor.Swrort
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2024-09-20 09:10:21 UTC
File Type:
PE (Exe)
AV detection:
33 of 38 (86.84%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
metasploit
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
family:cobaltstrike family:metasploit backdoor discovery trojan
Behaviour
System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Cobaltstrike
MetaSploit
Malware Config
C2 Extraction:
http://89.197.154.116:7810/huGC1aTx6yf7CvoLneazWgnuOQe879sh
Unpacked files
SH256 hash:
b151876e8b4405344dcbf1c7738be9f93f2cf2cc0cde9ba18d73fa443f460ecd
MD5 hash:
5c74e515750a07cd1800406809bccdfe
SHA1 hash:
ea0e48d2dededa100b57dc62a75baa60a8e32f57
Detections:
SUSP_Imphash_Mar23_2 CobaltStrike_Resources_Httpsstager_Bin_v2_5_through_v4_x CobaltStrike_Resources_Httpsstager_Bin_v2_5_through_v4_x
Malware family:
CobaltStrike
Verdict:
Malicious
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YARA Signatures


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Rule name:CobaltStrikeStager
Author:@dan__mayer <daniel@stairwell.com>
Description:Cobalt Strike Stager Payload
Rule name:CobaltStrike_Resources_Httpsstager_Bin_v2_5_through_v4_x
Author:gssincla@google.com
Description:Cobalt Strike's resources/httpsstager.bin signature for versions 2.5 to 4.x
Reference:https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/making-cobalt-strike-harder-for-threat-actors-to-abuse
Rule name:CobaltStrike__Resources_Httpsstager_Bin_v2_5_through_v4_x
Author:gssincla@google.com
Rule name:Detect_APT29_WINELOADER_Backdoor
Author:daniyyell
Description:Detects APT29's WINELOADER backdoor variant used in phishing campaigns, this rule also detect bad pdf,shtml,htm and vbs or maybe more depends
Reference:https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/apt29-wineloader-german-political-parties
Rule name:Detect_Malicious_VBScript_Base64
Author:daniyyell
Description:Detects malicious VBScript patterns, including Base64 decoding, file operations, and PowerShell.
Rule name:INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_NoneWindowsUA
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detects Windows executables referencing non-Windows User-Agents
Rule name:meth_peb_parsing
Author:Willi Ballenthin
Rule name:SUSP_Imphash_Mar23_2
Author:Arnim Rupp (https://github.com/ruppde)
Description:Detects imphash often found in malware samples (Zero hits with with search for 'imphash:x p:0' on Virustotal)
Reference:Internal Research
Rule name:Windows_Trojan_Metasploit_24338919
Author:Elastic Security
Description:Identifies metasploit wininet reverse shellcode. Also used by other tools (like beacon).
Rule name:Windows_Trojan_Metasploit_96233b6b
Author:Elastic Security
Description:Identifies another 64 bit API hashing function used by Metasploit.

File information


The table below shows additional information about this malware sample such as delivery method and external references.

Web download

Cobalt Strike

Executable exe b151876e8b4405344dcbf1c7738be9f93f2cf2cc0cde9ba18d73fa443f460ecd

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

BLint


The following table provides more information about this file using BLint. BLint is a Binary Linter to check the security properties, and capabilities in executables.

Findings
IDTitleSeverity
CHECK_AUTHENTICODEMissing Authenticodehigh
CHECK_NXMissing Non-Executable Memory Protectioncritical
CHECK_PIEMissing Position-Independent Executable (PIE) Protectionhigh
Reviews
IDCapabilitiesEvidence
AUTH_APIManipulates User AuthorizationADVAPI32.dll::AllocateAndInitializeSid
ADVAPI32.dll::FreeSid
WIN32_PROCESS_APICan Create Process and ThreadsKERNEL32.dll::CloseHandle
WIN_BASE_APIUses Win Base APIKERNEL32.dll::TerminateProcess
KERNEL32.dll::LoadLibraryA
KERNEL32.dll::GetCommandLineW
WIN_BASE_EXEC_APICan Execute other programsKERNEL32.dll::SetStdHandle
WIN_BASE_IO_APICan Create FilesKERNEL32.dll::CreateFileA
KERNEL32.dll::CreateFileW
WIN_SOCK_APIUses Network to send and receive dataWS2_32.dll::WSARecv
WS2_32.dll::WSASend

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