A Knowledge Base of Attack Campaigns captured by Guardicore Global Sensor Network
Campaign Information
Name Dota | |
First seen in Guardicore Centra | 2019-03-01 |
Last seen in Guardicore Centra | 2020-07-12 |
Dota is a cryptomining campaign targeting Linux machines using SSH brute force. At the time of writing, the botnet has been active for over a year. Its payload includes Monero cryptominers for different system architectures as well as a worm module, scanning the internal network and spreading the malware to additional machines. As part of its post-infection, Dota changes the root password and creates a backdoor by writing its own SSH key to authorized_keys. In addition, it reads system information such as disk space, CPU model, available memory and even installed cron jobs. | |
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Indicators of Compromise
Source IPs
Connect-Back Servers
Associated Files
| Path | Hash | Size |
|---|---|---|
/tmp/.X17-unix/dota.tar.gz, /var/tmp/dota.tar.gz | 4be3587fff7bd24fe254f2dee5c3501fd2824ec5dc7f3e4f7e1a6f1e130e8ad6 | 5.46 MB |
/tmp/.X13-unix/.rsync/c/lib/64/tsm, /tmp/.X17-unix/.rsync/c/lib/64/tsm | 0f754eab280e5ff0b65c46bdd1cc16e8aff944c834379df2632cd5f261afe3bb | 158.82 KB |
/tmp/.X17-unix/dota.tar.gz, /var/tmp/dota.tar.gz | 2d6e2e1c77c80e8d0198ae76e7bb40db524f1e699211b554a126d20802f985f3 | 5.46 MB |
/root/.firefoxcatche/a/cron, /tmp/.X15-unix/.rsync/a/cron | 4efec3c7b33fd857bf8ef38e767ac203167d842fdecbeee29e30e044f7c6e33d | 1.59 MB |
/home/mysql/arhiva/haiduc, /home/mysql/haiduc/haiduc.filepart, /home/mysql/md/haiduc.filepart… | 6163a3ca3be7c3b6e8449722f316be66079207e493830c1cf4e114128f4fb6a4 | 1016.20 KB |
/usr/local/bin/srsync.sh | c9bd0154342a966efc86fb700a844e596c1daaa6d7a44e73da8553edb1887a5a | 109 bytes |
/tmp/.X15-unix/dota2.tar.gz | 45d985035e68d09deeea137ecd75ac1622e35202f411c5d0b5d51d9ee42b2a84 | 2.49 MB |
/tmp/.X13-unix/dota.tar.gz, /var/tmp/dota.tar.gz | 04c423db3fe5e95ed7f6764e0baf34c51192aee8b2e5856392dcdea3262aa5ae | 6.65 MB |
/tmp/.x15cache | 3973940fd949ccb944d8ff160a7c7d08aa5d3f4eadd67a0e5d41fe0bffebb469 | 308 bytes |
/tmp/.X17-unix/dota.tar.gz, /var/tmp/dota.tar.gz | e14c1024248b2bc0dd71cad189c85bff0a6d27027e1840dae411ff215e7b963e | 6.02 MB |
/tmp/.X15-unix/dota2.tar.gz | 86ab0b3a7f7a8ff5a40199289b975a91a58d2c0b1d0893cf8d8e6923b17039ee | 2.49 MB |
/tmp/.X13-unix/dota.tar.gz, /var/tmp/dota.tar.gz | 0d3924e9570e3b7520bd563e346a09e9405bc4305c21816512d5109b02492bad | 6.62 MB |
/tmp/.X15-unix/dota2.tar.gz | c8cae37e3320a1c1f3079fa6d13b62e03156bb17a1a054e3a6d8509c815e8c3b | 2.49 MB |
/var/tmp/dota.tar.gz | b0d6de587b4fa21db9146cf17e4c4250246211043ba4b130f35c7ebcbbd603fe | 60.00 KB |
/tmp/lan.sh | 75f5d5c5fc34ce708d91ccecb0aed9013975c143d15b4e9e6a7d15e2f0e28dc3 | 530 bytes |
Attack Flow
Breached Services | SSH |
Tags | SSH New SSH Key 21 Shell Commands Download File Successful SSH Login SFTP Superuser Operation |
Incident Summary
A user logged in using SSH with the following credentials: root / ******** – Authentication policy: White List | Successful SSH Login |
A possibly malicious Superuser Operation was detected 2 times | Superuser Operation |
/tmp/.X25-unix/dota3.tar.gz was downloaded | Download File |
Connection was closed due to timeout | |
An attempt to download /root/.ssh/authorized_keys was made | New SSH Key |