TryHackMe | Carnage WriteUp

 

Apply your analytical skills to analyze the malicious network traffic using Wireshark.

Link- https://tryhackme.com/room/c2carnage


After loading the pcap file in wireshark. Change the time display preferences.


What was the date and time for the first HTTP connection to the malicious IP?

(answer format: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss)

check the HTTP traffic

2021–09–24 16:44:38


What is the name of the zip file that was downloaded?

Check the contents of the packet

documents.zip


What was the domain hosting the malicious zip file?

attirenepal.com


Without downloading the file, what is the name of the file in the zip file?

Right click the packet and follow HTTP stream

chart-1530076591.xls


What is the name of the webserver of the malicious IP from which the zip file was downloaded?

LiteSpeed


What is the version of the webserver from the previous question?

PHP/7.2.34

Malicious files were downloaded to the victim host from multiple domains. What were the three domains involved with this activity?

finejewels.com.au, thietbiagt.com, new.americold.com


Which certificate authority issued the SSL certificate to the first domain from the previous question?

GoDaddy


What are the two IP addresses of the Cobalt Strike servers? Use VirusTotal (the Community tab) to confirm if IPs are identified as Cobalt Strike C2 servers. (answer format: enter the IP addresses in sequential order)

Check HTTP traffic to and from external IPs

185.106.96.158, 185.125.204.174


What is the Host header for the first Cobalt Strike IP address from the previous question?

Check contents of packet

ocsp.verisign.com


What is the domain name for the first IP address of the Cobalt Strike server? You may use VirusTotal to confirm if it’s the Cobalt Strike server (check the Community tab).

survmeter.live


What is the domain name of the second Cobalt Strike server IP? You may use VirusTotal to confirm if it’s the Cobalt Strike server (check the Community tab).

securitybusinpuff.com


What is the domain name of the post-infection traffic?

maldivehost.net


What are the first eleven characters that the victim host sends out to the malicious domain involved in the post-infection traffic?

zLIisQRWZI9


What was the length for the first packet sent out to the C2 server?

281


What was the Server header for the malicious domain from the previous question?

Apache/2.4.49 (cPanel) OpenSSL/1.1.1l mod_bwlimited/1.4


The malware used an API to check for the IP address of the victim’s machine. What was the date and time when the DNS query for the IP check domain occurred? (answer format: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss UTC)

Check DNS traffic

2021–09–24 17:00:04


What was the domain in the DNS query from the previous question?

api.ipify.org


Looks like there was some malicious spam (malspam) activity going on. What was the first MAIL FROM address observed in the traffic?

farshin@mailfa.com


How many packets were observed for the SMTP traffic?

Click on the Statistics dropdown menu and see Protocol Hierarchy Statistics

1439


That’s it! See you in the next Room :)


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