Cereal2 · Observed attack

AS28665 UDP flood on 177.12.42.0/24 | 2026-10-14 10:18:04Z

· Event #329501

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
2026-10-14T10:18:04.172Z
Recorded

Recorded 139ms after observation

Affected network
177.12.42.0/24
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
000000007e f3 70 f6 2d c6 2a f9~.p.-.*.
0000000869 2f 75 0d 40 7f 2e 40i/u.@..@
0000001095 44 b0 05 9a 55 47 f0.D...UG.
0000001836 e2 98 01 f7 b5 a1 296......)

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

SHA-256 of decoded template

d6ecfc81e2fbd28a21494ed63cfccefa9a7eb1a567558a62f599c5873c83aa12

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
7ef370f62dc62af9692f750d407f2e409544b0059a5547f036e29801f7b5a129

Original bytes (Base64)

N2VmMzcwZjYyZGM2MmFmOTY5MmY3NTBkNDA3ZjJlNDA5NTQ0YjAwNTlhNTU0N2YwMzZlMjk4MDFmN2I1YTEyOQ==

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