🦠 Malware Analysis
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🎯 Threat Intelligence
Executive summary: Exposed command-and-control (C2) panels remain a
high-value reconnaissance target for defenders. Recent tracking
approaches focus on fingerprinting Supershell, HookBot, Chaos RAT,
UnamWebPanel, Metasploit web panels and Mythic deployments using URL
paths, page titles, favicon hashes, repository links and TLS
artifacts.
Technical details:
• Datasets used: httpv2 provides HTTP response bodies and headers;
urlx provides broad URL indexing for reconnaissance; crawler stores
page snapshots, scripts and favicons. These datasets enable pivoting
from a candidate URL to certificates, page artifacts and related
hosts.
• Fingerprints observed: predictable admin/login paths (default paths
and titles), identical favicons across domains, repo/hash references
(for Chaos RAT), and default panel titles (Supershell, UnamWebPanel).
Reused TLS certificates and exposed open directories are common
staging indicators.
Analysis:
• Attack surface: Publicly reachable panels give operators full
situational awareness over victims, credential dumps, wallets and
payload distribution. Trojans like AsyncRAT have been observed behind
trojanized ScreenConnect installers and exposed staging directories
that reveal panel artifacts.
• Correlation value: Matching favicon hashes and identical static
assets is an effective way to cluster infrastructure when X.509 or IP
overlap is insufficient.
Detection:
• Practical queries: search for common admin/login URL path patterns,
compare title strings for known panel names, compute and match favicon
hashes across domains, and query certificate reuse across urlx/httpv2.
• Sample detection approach:
SELECT url FROM httpv2 WHERE title LIKE '%Supershell%' OR path LIKE
'/admin' OR favicon_hash IN (known_hashes);
Mitigation:
• Defensive controls: block or take down exposed panels via abuse
channels, revoke reused certificates, and patch exposed staging
systems. Harden remote access installers (ScreenConnect) and validate
upstream artifacts to prevent trojanization.
References & limitations:
• Evidence-based correlation is effective but contingent on dataset
coverage; absence of a fingerprint is not proof of safety. Attribution
requires further telemetry.
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🔗 Source: https://hunt.io/blog/hunting-c2-panels-beginners-guide