Cereal2 · Observed attack

AS265412 UDP flood on 168.194.222.0/23 | 2026-10-13 00:05:07Z

· Event #327806

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
2026-10-13T00:05:07.398Z
Recorded

Recorded 154ms after observation

Affected network
168.194.222.0/23
Network operator
SMANET INFORMÁTICA EIRELI MEAS265412
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
00000000ce 5d bf 25 6f 5b e2 75.].%o[.u
0000000813 9d 0a 10 4c 49 0e 02....LI..
00000010f5 58 0e 92 a0 3c 9b 65.X...<.e
00000018f4 86 07 e5 5b a0 d5 54....[..T

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

SHA-256 of decoded template

0b33b22f5b8ce74b1076014652f6009165c726106bba2e727e3ffebe947850db

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
ce5dbf256f5be275139d0a104c490e02f5580e92a03c9b65f48607e55ba0d554

Original bytes (Base64)

Y2U1ZGJmMjU2ZjViZTI3NTEzOWQwYTEwNGM0OTBlMDJmNTU4MGU5MmEwM2M5YjY1ZjQ4NjA3ZTU1YmEwZDU1NA==

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