Cereal2 · Observed attack

AS271267 UDP flood on 168.197.183.0/24 | 2026-10-12 07:18:08Z

· Event #326726

WhatsApp

Country-level precision. botnet.cl stores the target country, never a city or coordinates, so the marker sits at the country's center.

What this method does

Cereal2 vector 19: Configurable custom-payload UDP flood.

All Configurable custom-payload UDP flood observations
Observed
2026-10-12T07:18:08.479Z
Recorded

Recorded 245ms after observation

Affected network
168.197.183.0/24
Method
Configurable custom-payload UDP floodVector 19
Protocol
udp
Destination port
Randomized
Commanded duration
1m
Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite · 2026-09

Snapshot taken at ingestion; it is never re-resolved later.

Payload observed in C2 command

Observed command data; this does not establish what reached the target.

Custom payload · 32 bytes

Decoded template · 32 bytes

OffsetHexadecimalASCII
000000009e 61 32 cd a2 80 17 f9.a2.....
00000008ca 2d ee 42 0a 16 66 a6.-.B..f.
0000001093 13 51 17 82 dd c0 d4..Q.....
0000001893 eb 26 86 81 b5 98 e0..&.....

8 or 16 bytes per row, depending on screen width. Dots represent non-printable bytes.

SHA-256 of decoded template

d94c2ed0a5eefa0ceb2da1902e1cc7a70496825c67e188b2aad4ea6182aa9f99

Configured datagram length
1400 bytes
Minimum length option
1000 bytes
Maximum length option
1400 bytes

Length options are command settings, not measured packet sizes. The decoded template can differ from the resulting datagrams.

Original encoded value
9e6132cda28017f9ca2dee420a1666a69313511782ddc0d493eb268681b598e0

Original bytes (Base64)

OWU2MTMyY2RhMjgwMTdmOWNhMmRlZTQyMGExNjY2YTY5MzEzNTExNzgyZGRjMGQ0OTNlYjI2ODY4MWI1OThlMA==

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