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hunting-cobalt-strike-traffic

Hunts for Cobalt Strike beacon traffic by detecting default stager URI checksum8 values, default Malleable C2 profile artifacts, and default ports/named pipes in HTTP and process telemetry. Activates for requests to hunt Cobalt Strike, detect beacon stager URIs, or find default Malleable C2 indicators.

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SKILL.md (original)

Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.

Hunting Cobalt Strike Traffic

When to Use

  • You have HTTP request logs (proxy/Zeek http.log) and/or process telemetry and want to detect default-configuration Cobalt Strike beacons.
  • You are triaging suspected C2 using known default artifacts before deeper analysis.

Do not use default-indicator detection as proof — operators customize Malleable C2 profiles. Absence of defaults does not mean no Cobalt Strike. This skill parses telemetry and executes nothing.

Prerequisites

  • HTTP request URIs and/or process/pipe telemetry.

Workflow

Step 1: Detect default stager URIs

python scripts/analyst.py hunt http.csv

Flags request URIs whose path matches the Cobalt Strike default stager checksum8 algorithm (sum of the path characters mod 256 equals 92 for x86 or 93 for x64 stagers).

Step 2: Match default profile artifacts

Flag default user-agents, default URIs (/__utm.gif, /submit.php, /pixel), and default named pipes (\\.\pipe\msagent_*, \\.\pipe\status_*) when present in telemetry.

Step 3: Confirm

Corroborate with beaconing periodicity and destination reputation; pivot to memory/config analysis.

Step 4: Operationalize

Write detections for checksum8 URIs and known default artifacts, accepting they catch defaults only.

Validation

  • checksum8 detection correctly computes the path-character sum mod 256.
  • Default profile artifacts are matched exactly, not by loose substrings.
  • Findings are presented as default-indicator hits, not definitive attribution.

Pitfalls

  • Customized Malleable C2 profiles defeating all default-artifact checks.
  • checksum8 false positives on unrelated short URIs — corroborate with other signals.
  • Treating a single default hit as confirmation without behavioral corroboration.

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