File name:

280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc

Full analysis: https://app.any.run/tasks/a4c39669-91e6-41d2-8efe-80bdea454740
Verdict: Malicious activity
Threats:

Cobalt Strike is a legitimate penetration software toolkit developed by Forta. But its cracked versions are widely adopted by bad actors, who use it as a C2 system of choice for targeted attacks.

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Analysis date: May 18, 2025, 12:05:02
OS: Windows 10 Professional (build: 19044, 64 bit)
Tags:
cobaltstrike
Indicators:
MIME: application/vnd.microsoft.portable-executable
File info: PE32+ executable (console) x86-64, for MS Windows, 16 sections
MD5:

D6608289695FE7EE74DEB9906DAFA150

SHA1:

53FE6EDCF978642BF53C015F054EDF5122473CB0

SHA256:

280635176837A481603E19B0EC3B714CA692503BBA45BEFF02A99F52A79D34DC

SSDEEP:

384:oq8Gt85tsovcB1oP42OphYsGvW1v0VoCCZKVDsIG2KZt9y+/F:oRGt0sQcB1oEYq1vHCG8

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  • MALICIOUS

    • COBALTSTRIKE has been detected (YARA)

      • 280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe (PID: 6744)

  • SUSPICIOUS

    • Executes application which crashes

      • 280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe (PID: 6744)

    • Reads security settings of Internet Explorer

      • 280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe (PID: 6744)

  • INFO

    • Reads the computer name

      • 280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe (PID: 6744)

    • Checks supported languages

      • 280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe (PID: 6744)

    • Reads the machine GUID from the registry

      • 280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe (PID: 6744)

    • Checks proxy server information

      • 280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe (PID: 6744)
      • slui.exe (PID: 1348)

    • Reads the software policy settings

      • 280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe (PID: 6744)
      • slui.exe (PID: 1348)

    • Creates files or folders in the user directory

      • WerFault.exe (PID: 896)
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CobalStrike

(PID) Process(6744) 280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe
C247.122.115.29:443/kunkun/jquery-3.3.2.slim.min.js
HeadersAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: http://www.baidu.com/ Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
No Malware configuration.

TRiD

.exe | Win64 Executable (generic) (87.3)
.exe | Generic Win/DOS Executable (6.3)
.exe | DOS Executable Generic (6.3)

EXIF

EXE

MachineType: AMD AMD64
TimeStamp: 2025:05:15 15:29:06+00:00
ImageFileCharacteristics: Executable, No line numbers, Large address aware
PEType: PE32+
LinkerVersion: 2.44
CodeSize: 7680
InitializedDataSize: 8704
UninitializedDataSize: 512
EntryPoint: 0x13f0
OSVersion: 4
ImageVersion: -
SubsystemVersion: 5.2
Subsystem: Windows command line
No data.
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Total processes
125
Monitored processes
4
Malicious processes
1
Suspicious processes
0

Behavior graph

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start #COBALTSTRIKE 280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe conhost.exe no specs werfault.exe no specs slui.exe

Process information

PID
CMD
Path
Indicators
Parent process
896C:\WINDOWS\system32\WerFault.exe -u -p 6744 -s 1516C:\Windows\System32\WerFault.exe—280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Windows Problem Reporting
Exit code:
0
Version:
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\werfault.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\combase.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\cryptsp.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
c:\windows\system32\oleaut32.dll
1348C:\WINDOWS\System32\slui.exe -EmbeddingC:\Windows\System32\slui.exe
svchost.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Windows Activation Client
Exit code:
0
Version:
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\slui.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\advapi32.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\sechost.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
c:\windows\system32\bcrypt.dll
c:\windows\system32\user32.dll
5008\??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\conhost.exe 0xffffffff -ForceV1C:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe—280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Console Window Host
Exit code:
0
Version:
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\conhost.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcp_win.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\shcore.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\combase.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
6744"C:\Users\admin\Desktop\280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe" C:\Users\admin\Desktop\280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe
explorer.exe
User:
admin
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Exit code:
3221225477
Modules
Images
c:\users\admin\desktop\280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\apphelp.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\wininet.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\advapi32.dll
c:\windows\system32\sechost.dll
CobalStrike
(PID) Process(6744) 280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe
C247.122.115.29:443/kunkun/jquery-3.3.2.slim.min.js
HeadersAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: http://www.baidu.com/ Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
Total events
8 472
Read events
8 472
Write events
0
Delete events
0

Modification events

No data
Executable files
0
Suspicious files
3
Text files
1
Unknown types
0

Dropped files

PID
Process
Filename
Type
896WerFault.exeC:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\AppCrash_280635176837a481_7735ecc3b23ffae9c0fe279db1f68dee3585_4c54f50f_02eaa88f-ac50-49f8-8f26-6c545eeb2b83\Report.wer —
MD5:—
SHA256:—
896WerFault.exeC:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WEREDEC.tmp.dmpbinary
MD5:69988D7A386E58A0CE0F1ABB188F86DF
SHA256:78515367F59FA4BB010E8F0E22C15E3EEA4DBEEC4E00ADD6C46D51F60FE72E52
896WerFault.exeC:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WEREEF7.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xmlbinary
MD5:BDD2C1F0BA8DDFCE2849C2FCEA71FDCC
SHA256:FD04A2AF728A46A62A0D402AD51CB4AEE08C6C2C139A0CECBC99C22F2D68F686
896WerFault.exeC:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WEREF17.tmp.xmlxml
MD5:5A74FC5C9EDFABE668608298666E8157
SHA256:BFEF03D680DC9C331EBD0E15A2D39D0A954569C91C0044F368A493C0EDE54F8F
896WerFault.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\CrashDumps\280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe.6744.dmpbinary
MD5:7C49071386DBC251557F949A68C97BD7
SHA256:39BE63F9521999FBE039556034C572085450BB762F43BF8D6ABC6E38B7FB1D70
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HTTP(S) requests
0
TCP/UDP connections
22
DNS requests
4
Threats
0

HTTP requests

No HTTP requests
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Connections

PID
Process
IP
Domain
ASN
CN
Reputation
—
—
192.168.100.255:137
—
—
—
whitelisted
—
—
51.124.78.146:443
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
NL
whitelisted
4
System
192.168.100.255:138
—
—
—
whitelisted
6744
280635176837a481603e19b0ec3b714ca692503bba45beff02a99f52a79d34dc.exe
47.122.115.29:443
—
—
CN
unknown
7020
slui.exe
20.83.72.98:443
activation-v2.sls.microsoft.com
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
US
whitelisted
1348
slui.exe
40.91.76.224:443
activation-v2.sls.microsoft.com
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
US
whitelisted

DNS requests

Domain
IP
Reputation
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
  • 51.124.78.146
whitelisted
google.com
  • 216.58.206.46
whitelisted
activation-v2.sls.microsoft.com
  • 20.83.72.98
  • 40.91.76.224
whitelisted

Threats

No threats detected
No debug info
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