Quick Malware Analysis: Qakbot and Cobalt Strike pcap from 2022-04-14

Thanks to Brad Duncan for sharing this pcap!
https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/2022/04/14/index.html

We did a quick analysis of this pcap on the latest version of Security Onion via so-import-pcap:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/so-import-pcap.html

The screenshots below show some of the interesting Suricata alerts, Zeek logs, session transcripts, and observables.

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