Security Onion: Quick Malware Analysis: QAKBOT (QBOT) infection with COBALT STRIKE pcap from 2022-09-29

Thursday, October 6, 2022

Quick Malware Analysis: QAKBOT (QBOT) infection with COBALT STRIKE pcap from 2022-09-29

Thanks to Brad Duncan for sharing this pcap!
https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/2022/09/29/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, and session transcripts. We start with NIDS alerts from the Emerging Threats Open ruleset and then pivot to the full TCP stream for interesting alerts. We then look at protocol metadata provided by Zeek such as HTTP transactions and DNS lookups. We go through each protocol and look at an overview of all logs for that data type.

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Screenshots

Click the first image to start the screenshot tour: