Suspicious C2 Beacon with Legacy MSIE User Agent

PremiumReviewedSigma · Medium · v1
Category
proxy
Author
HuntRule
Published
2026-09-15
Updated
2026-09-15

ATT&CK techniques

C2
  1. Recon

  2. Resource Dev

  3. Initial Access

  4. Execution

  5. Persistence

  6. Priv Esc

  7. Defense Evasion

  8. Cred Access

  9. Discovery

  10. Lateral Movement

  11. Collection

  12. Exfiltration

  13. Impact

What it detects

This rule detects outbound HTTP traffic to the axios RAT command and control host over a non-standard port using a hardcoded legacy Internet Explorer user agent. The implant beacons to sfrclak.com on port 8000 with an obsolete MSIE client string that rarely appears from modern endpoints. The combination of this destination and the archaic user agent identifies the RAT check-in channel.

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