Cereal2 · Observed attack

Configurable custom-payload UDP flood on DonutSMP in United States

· Event #292202

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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
2026-09-30T12:38:06.050Z
Recorded

Recorded 12s after observation

Affected network
40.223.14.0/23
Network operator
DonutSMPAS396120
Location
United States
Method
Configurable custom-payload UDP floodVector 19
Protocol
udp
Destination port
Randomized
Commanded duration
1m
Observed via
129.226.82.94130.94.107.174130.94.17.15152.42.196.145165.245.246.201178.62.233.22738.60.238.10943.130.251.22843.156.47.24043.156.82.23343.157.142.7843.157.198.20043.157.78.24343.166.153.5843.166.252.22243.166.68.1743.173.124.2792.119.158.3994.183.235.14294.183.235.24995.182.87.134

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

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
000000005d be 69 3e 53 61 a1 82].i>Sa..
0000000853 25 9c f2 06 02 80 50S%.....P
000000109c 1e c4 b6 fd 68 1d af.....h..
00000018ed 36 c7 e7 b6 4f 51 47.6...OQG

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

SHA-256 of decoded template

66faa70f480be4b90cd95eb1f380447ab650d2749555994a83d68ed9b01c1bea

Configured datagram length
1400 bytes
Minimum length option
0 (no range requested)
Maximum length option
0 (no range requested)

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

Original encoded value
5dbe693e5361a18253259cf2060280509c1ec4b6fd681dafed36c7e7b64f5147

Original bytes (Base64)

NWRiZTY5M2U1MzYxYTE4MjUzMjU5Y2YyMDYwMjgwNTA5YzFlYzRiNmZkNjgxZGFmZWQzNmM3ZTdiNjRmNTE0Nw==

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