Cereal2 · Observed attack

AS265309 UDP flood on 168.90.238.0/24 | 2026-10-14 04:45:59Z

· Event #329198

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
2026-10-14T04:45:59.962Z
Recorded

Recorded 138ms after observation

Affected network
168.90.238.0/24
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
0000000097 0b 5f 5b dd 1b 93 8f.._[....
00000008d6 1c 08 f0 99 6d 63 0f.....mc.
00000010b3 e6 3c d8 90 58 37 64..<..X7d
000000183b cc 6a 31 15 78 15 b9;.j1.x..

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

SHA-256 of decoded template

451959b6b677ec9d357972aa5bb8673bc79fe2aa71ddfd16e0c35b587f4aa008

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
970b5f5bdd1b938fd61c08f0996d630fb3e63cd8905837643bcc6a31157815b9

Original bytes (Base64)

OTcwYjVmNWJkZDFiOTM4ZmQ2MWMwOGYwOTk2ZDYzMGZiM2U2M2NkODkwNTgzNzY0M2JjYzZhMzExNTc4MTViOQ==

botnet.cl reports infrastructure it observed. An address appearing here identifies a target or a relay, not a person responsible for the attack.