Cereal2 ยท Observed attack

AS265066 UDP flood on 168.121.200.0/22 | 2026-09-07 00:48:25Z

ยท Event #198411

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
2026-09-07T00:48:25.213Z
Recorded

Recorded 103ms after observation

Affected network
168.121.200.0/22
Method
Configurable custom-payload UDP floodVector 19
Protocol
udp
Destination port
Randomized
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
212.193.31.219

All controllers with retained sightings of this order. Older records may have incomplete source coverage.

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-07

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.

Payload undecodable

The source is not a complete sequence of hexadecimal byte pairs. No decoded bytes are inferred.

Configured datagram length
1400 bytes
Minimum length option
28 bytes
Maximum length option
128 bytes

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

Original encoded value
0xAB0xCC

Original bytes (Base64)

MHhBQjB4Q0M=

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