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CobaltStrike


Vendor detections: 8


Intelligence 8 IOCs YARA 24 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: d88a5f1d23da79bccafc1cd797d331d211a0106eb5494d1ca88600edb1ed16d9
SHA3-384 hash: 28d3d2045ae4ab8618594dd8fe28b57aadd9c68694b92cf43c62c5653617429950e3b758e86a983566cdb47fa8208ae8
SHA1 hash: 09b58a119fc96efea20c4632c7bf011ae8d08010
MD5 hash: 5caef9f0df262c9488206d3be974c0ab
humanhash: connecticut-harry-illinois-friend
File name:d
Download: download sample
Signature CobaltStrike
File size:7'135'416 bytes
First seen:2025-12-07 11:01:49 UTC
Last seen:2025-12-08 00:39:59 UTC
File type: elf
MIME type:application/x-executable
ssdeep 49152:puY951LBe0C06CipU6nKy1wzmAl+Sgjmwfhunp+oqBT+OpNTY03AjZ7KX+l4VPKn:p3ReG62qzmYunMoqSKNTwGrKZEc
TLSH T1F1764A03EC9515E9C1F9A1348A629253BA717C495B3127D33BA0F3782F73BD0AAB9750
telfhash t10b32467159bc74b4b6aada20b3a2b574953719a563f838f05023ed90ffc1e801ce6c27
gimphash e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
TrID 50.1% (.) ELF Executable and Linkable format (Linux) (4022/12)
49.8% (.O) ELF Executable and Linkable format (generic) (4000/1)
Magika elf
Reporter abuse_ch
Tags:CobaltStrike elf

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
3
# of downloads :
26
Origin country :
DE DE
Vendor Threat Intelligence
No detections
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
anti-vm base64 beacon cobalt cobalt cobaltstrike crypto golang
Result
Gathering data
Result
Threat name:
n/a
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
n/a
Score:
64 / 100
Signature
Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Suricata IDS alerts for network traffic
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
Threat name:
Linux.Trojan.CobaltStrike
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2025-12-07 11:02:34 UTC
File Type:
ELF64 Little (Exe)
AV detection:
10 of 36 (27.78%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  3/10
Tags:
discovery linux
Behaviour
Enumerates kernel/hardware configuration
Reads runtime system information
Verdict:
Unknown
Tags:
red_team_tool cobalt_strike
YARA:
CobaltStrikeBeacon
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YARA Signatures


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Rule name:CobaltStrikeBeacon
Author:ditekshen, enzo & Elastic
Description:Cobalt Strike Beacon Payload
Rule name:CobaltStrike_C2_Encoded_XOR_Config_Indicator
Author:yara@s3c.za.net
Description:Detects CobaltStrike C2 encoded profile configuration
Rule name:CP_Script_Inject_Detector
Author:DiegoAnalytics
Description:Detects attempts to inject code into another process across PE, ELF, Mach-O binaries
Rule name:DetectEncryptedVariants
Author:Zinyth
Description:Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded
Rule name:DetectGoMethodSignatures
Author:Wyatt Tauber
Description:Detects Go method signatures in unpacked Go binaries
Rule name:Detect_Go_GOMAXPROCS
Author:Obscurity Labs LLC
Description:Detects Go binaries by the presence of runtime.GOMAXPROCS in the runtime metadata
Rule name:enterpriseapps2
Author:Tim Brown @timb_machine
Description:Enterprise apps
Rule name:F01_s1ckrule
Author:s1ckb017
Rule name:GoBinTest
Rule name:golang
Rule name:golang_binary_string
Description:Golang strings present
Rule name:golang_duffcopy_amd64
Rule name:identity_golang
Author:Eric Yocam
Description:find Golang malware
Rule name:MD5_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for MD5 constants
Rule name:ProgramLanguage_Golang
Author:albertzsigovits
Description:Application written in Golang programming language
Rule name:RANSOMWARE
Author:ToroGuitar
Rule name:RIPEMD160_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for RIPEMD-160 constants
Rule name:setsockopt
Author:Tim Brown @timb_machine
Description:Hunts for setsockopt() red flags
Rule name:SHA1_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for SHA1 constants
Rule name:SHA512_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for SHA384/SHA512 constants
Rule name:SUSP_XORed_Mozilla_Oct19
Author:Florian Roth
Description:Detects suspicious single byte XORed keyword 'Mozilla/5.0' - it uses yara's XOR modifier and therefore cannot print the XOR key. You can use the CyberChef recipe linked in the reference field to brute force the used key.
Reference:https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=XOR_Brute_Force()
Rule name:SUSP_XORed_Mozilla_RID2DB4
Author:Florian Roth
Description:Detects suspicious XORed keyword - Mozilla/5.0
Reference:Internal Research
Rule name:unixredflags3
Author:Tim Brown @timb_machine
Description:Hunts for UNIX red flags
Rule name:vmdetect
Author:nex
Description:Possibly employs anti-virtualization techniques

File information


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Web download

CobaltStrike

elf d88a5f1d23da79bccafc1cd797d331d211a0106eb5494d1ca88600edb1ed16d9

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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