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Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Cobalt Strike first appeared in 2012 in response to alleged flaws in the Metasploit Framework, an existing red team (penetration testing) tool. Cobalt Strike 3.0 was released in 2015 as a stand-alone opponent emulation platform. However, researchers began observing threat actors using Cobalt Strike by 2016. Cobalt Strike’s use in hostile activities was previously connected with huge cybercriminal operations like TA3546 and APT40. Two-thirds of detected Cobalt hit efforts from 2016 to 2018 were attributable to well-resourced cybercrime organizations or APT groups, according to researchers.

Cobalt Strike lets the attacker install a ‘Beacon’ agent on the target PC which provides the attacker with a plethora of capabilities, including command execution, file transfer,  keylogging, mimikatz, port scanning, and privilege escalation. Cobalt Strike includes a toolkit called Artifact Kit that is used to create shellcode loaders.

Impact

  • Data Exfiltration
  • Information Theft

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

  • 8336a6aeb41b066918c5cc7f27a4c36b

SHA-256

  • 50961ee399fc45bdfcec9201e069417a8bd00bc38bd1707a32c65451c33a17da

SHA-1

  • 2f0a7feac7da9c714aed0783b7f9e2f4bcf7783b

Remediation

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