How do you manage repairs for remote staff? Networking.Hello, I am IT director for a medium sized company (100 PC) based in Canada and starting 2 years ago like many corporations, we gone from a 100% local business to 75% remote employee working from home from anywhere in Canada and even worldwide (I have emp. Remotely lockdown/wipe corporate computer when employee terminates? Security.I think the machine may need a thorough inspection, maybe from an independent OS booted to scan it. The 'reference' links have interesting reads. For instance: cobalt strike indicators q3 2021 or IcedID and Cobalt Strike vs Antivirus. I find interesting reading via - in the past month they have had 4 or more 'pulses' all to do with Cobalt Strike, you might like to take a browse. Since Beacon and Meterpreter use the same stagers, techniques that get Meterpreter past anti-virus will get Beacon past anti-virus too. When you generate an artifact to deliver Beacon, you will need to account for anti-virus. Some artifacts (MS Office Macro attack, Cobalt Strike’s Java Attacks) get past some anti-virus products. It doesn’t matter if this payload is Meterpreter or Beacon. Anti-virus products catch artifacts that try to stage a payload. It’s a common misconception that anti-virus catches the Metasploit Framework’s payloads.
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With regard to an anti-virus scan, in a cobalt strike beacon operators guide it has this to say:Ī Note about Anti-virus. If a beacon is on your systems and trying to transmit its presence back then that can't be good, lets hope it is a false positive.
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I haven't really used Exchange so I can't give advice on how to trace and/or identify stuff on there.Īlso, eventually you may contact the IP range holder and let them know (if they don't already lol) their service is being used for malicious purposes. We use Gmail and can make use of its Admin console. In any case, please do keep us in the loop what you find after the AV scans (obv w/out revealing sensitive data re your systems).Įdit: I also assume you're running Exchange (which has had many reports recently of significant flaws) which I strongly advise against but only you know what is your situation. Maybe try to find out which email message exactly and you'll probably get more data off the header. It's extremely versatile and can serve multiple purposes.īeing email server maybe that's how the signature got onto your system? I'm not sure if it's wise to have an Internet-facing server serving as a backup server as well but (since I don't know too much on that particular topic) I assume you've got an infected file sent as attachment in some email.
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Yeah I mean Cobalt Strike is a red-team pentesting tool (licence 3500 USD a pop per year) but there are cracked versions on the dark web, being actively used by malactors. The destination IP has no hostname associated with it. I've been using Fortinet products for a few years and haven't had that happen with one of my servers before. This sounds like FortiGuard botnet protection has kicked in and blocked the traffic, but I could be wrong.Įdit: I followed the link in the firewall log entry you posted and it is an IPS rule that has blocked the traffic. Your FortiGate has detected suspicious outgoing traffic going from "internal" to "wan1". Subtype="ips" eventtype="signature" level="alert" "" my firewall had alerted me that the srcip came from my Email server /Backup server. What I have started to do is, run an Antivirus Scan, see what its picking up remove whatever it's picking up and reboot the server.
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Was wondering if anyone had come across this type of alert