CRITICAL: Sinkhole HTTP Events Report

DESCRIPTION LAST UPDATED: 2023-12-06

DEFAULT SEVERITY LEVEL: CRITICAL

This report contains events (connections) to HTTP Sinkholes. Sinkholing is a technique whereby a resource used by malicious actors to control malware is taken over and redirected to a benign listener that can (to a varying degree) understand connections coming from infected devices.

This report identifies the IP addresses from all the devices that joined a sinkhole server that did not arrive through an HTTP referrer.

Since a sinkhole server is only accessed through previously malicious domain names, only infected systems or security researchers should be seen in this list. However, the sinkholes may also pick up web crawlers requesting malicious domains.

This report can come in 2 versions, one for IPv4 only connections, the other for IPv6 only connections.

You can learn more on the report in our Sinkhole HTTP Events Report tutorial.

You can learn more on our reports in general in our Overview of Free Public Benefit Shadowserver Reports presentation, which also explains example Use Cases.

Severity levels are described here.

File names: event4_sinkhole_http and event6_sinkhole_http.

As of 30th March 2021, the following infections are being observed across all the sinkholes (this includes non-HTTP sinkholes) and shared out:

android_spams
android.bakdoor.prizmes
android.bankbot
android.banker.anubis
android.bankspy
android.darksilent
android.digitime.fota
android.fakeav
android.fakebank
android.fakedoc
android.fakemart
android.fobus
android.fungram
android.gopl
android.hqwar
android.hummer
android.iop
android.milipnot
android.nitmo
android.opfake
android.premiumtext
android.provar
android.rootnik
android.rotexy
android.skyfin
android.smsbot
android.smssilence
android.smsspy
android.smsspy.be24
android.sssaaa
android.teleplus
android.uupay
android.voxv
andromeda
andromeda-b66
avalanche-andromeda
avalanche-bolek
avalanche-citadel
avalanche-corebot
avalanche-dofoil
avalanche-generic
avalanche-gozi2
avalanche-goznym
avalanche-kins
avalanche-marcher
avalanche-matsnu
avalanche-nymaim
avalanche-pandabanker
avalanche-ranbyus
avalanche-rovnix
avalanche-smartapp
avalanche-teslacrypt
avalanche-tinba
avalanche-trusteer
avalanche-unknown
avalanche-urlzone
avalanche-vawtrak
avalanche-xswkit
b54-base
b54-code
b54-config
b54-old
b68-zeroaccess-1-32bit
b68-zeroaccess-1-64bit
b68-zeroaccess-2-32bit
b68-zeroaccess-2-64bit
banatrix
bankpatch
bebloh
bedep
beebone
betabot
bitcoinminer
blackbeard
blakamba
boaxxe
bolek
buhtrap
calypso
caphaw
carberp
chinad
citadel
cobaltstrike
coinminer
comment
conficker
corebot
cryptowall
cve-2009-4324
cycbot
diaminer
dipverdle
dircrypt
disorderstatus
dltminer
dmsniff
dofoil
domreg
dorkbot
dorkbot-ssl
downadup
dresscode
dybalom
emissary-panda
emotet
emotet-c2
enfal-apt
esfury
expiro
exploitkit.fallout
extenbro
fake_cs_updater
familyphotos-apt
flubot
fobber
foxbantrix
foxbantrix-unknown
generic
generic.malware
geodo
ghost-push
goldmax
gootkit
gozi
gozi2
goznym
gspy
gtfobot
hancitor
harnig
ibanking
icedid
iframe exploit
infected
infy-apt
iotreaper
ircbot-b58
isfb
jadtre
jdk-update-apt
js.worm.bondat
junk-domains
kasidet
kbot
kelihos
kelihos.e
keylogger
keylogger-ftp
keylogger-vbklip
kidminer
kingminer
kins
koobface
kovter
kronos
kwampirs
lethic
linux.backdoor.setag
linux.ngioweb
litemanager
loader
lurkbanker
machbot
machete-apt
magecart
maliciouswebsites
malwaretom
marcher
matrix
matsnu
menupass
mewsspy
minr
mirai
mix2
mkero
monero
mozi
muddywater
murofet
mysafeproxymonitor
nametrick
necurs
netsupport
nettraveler
neurevt
nitol
nivdort
nymaim
osiris
osx.fakeflash
pandabanker
phishing
phorpiex
pitou
plasma-tomas
poseidon
powerstats
proxyback
pushdo
pws.pony
pykspa
qadars
qakbot
qqblack
qrypter.rat
qsnatch
ramdo
ramnit
ranbyus
ransomware
ransomware.shade
renocide
rovnix
sality
sality_old
sality2
shadowpad
shifu
shiz
silon
sinowal
sisron
skunkx
smartapp
sodinokibi
sphinx
spyeye
ssl
ssl-az7
ssl-unknown-bot-test
ssl-vmzeus
stantinko
sunburst
sykipot-apt
teslacrypt
threatneedle
tick
tinba
tinba-dga
tonto-team
torpig
trickbot
trickbot-c2
trickbot-c2u
trickbot-fallback-c2
trickbot-iot-c2
trojan.click3
trojan.includer
trojan.win32.razy.gen
trusteer
tsifiri
unityminer
unknown
unknown-apt
unknown-bot-test
urlzone
valak
vawtrak
vbklip
verst
victorygate.a
victorygate.b
victorygate.c
vinself
virut
vmzeus
vpnfilter
wannacrypt
wauchos
win.neurevt
winnti
worm.phorpiex
wowlik
wrokni
x-agent
xcodeghost
xmrminer
xshellghost
xswkit
yash rat
yoddos
yzf
zeus
zeus_gameover
zeus_panda
zloader

 

 

Fields

  • timestamp
    Timestamp when the IP was seen in UTC+0
  • protocol
    Packet type of the connection traffic (UDP/TCP)
  • src_ip
    The IP of the device in question
  • src_port
    Source port of the IP connection
  • src_asn
    ASN of the source IP
  • src_geo
    Country of the source IP
  • src_region
    Region of the source IP
  • src_city
    City of the source IP
  • src_hostname
    Reverse DNS of the source IP
  • src_naics
    North American Industry Classification System Code
  • src_sector
    Sector to which the IP in question belongs; e.g. Communications, Commercial
  • device_vendor
    Source device vendor
  • device_type
    Source device type
  • device_model
    Source device model
  • severity
    Severity level
  • dst_ip
    Destination IP
  • dst_port
    Destination port of the IP connection
  • dst_asn
    ASN of the destination IP
  • dst_geo
    Country of the destination IP
  • dst_region
    Region of the destination IP
  • dst_city
    City of the destination IP
  • dst_hostname
    Reverse DNS of the destination IP
  • dst_naics
    North American Industry Classification System Code
  • dst_sector
    Sector to which the IP in question belongs; e.g. Communications, Commercial
  • public_source
    Source of the event data
  • infection
    Description of the malware/infection
  • family
    Malware family or campaign associated with the event
  • tag
    Event attributes
  • application
    Application name associated with the event
  • version
    Software version associated with the event
  • event_id
    Unique identifier assigned to the source IP or event
  • http_url
    HTTP request
  • http_host
    HTTP host extracted from the URL
  • http_agent
    HTTP user agent
  • forwarded_by
    HTTP proxy header
  • ssl_cipher
    SSL cipher used
  • http_referer
    Content of the HTTP referer
  • ssl_servername
    SSL servername

Sample

"timestamp","protocol","src_ip","src_port","src_asn","src_geo","src_region","src_city","src_hostname","src_naics","src_sector","device_vendor","device_type","device_model","severity","dst_ip","dst_port","dst_asn","dst_geo","dst_region","dst_city","dst_hostname","dst_naics","dst_sector","public_source","infection","family","tag","application","version","event_id","http_url","http_host","http_agent","forwarded_by","ssl_cipher","http_referer","ssl_servername"
"2010-02-10 00:00:00",tcp,192.168.0.1,49240,64512,ZZ,Region,City,node01.example.com,0,"Communications, Service Provider, and Hosting Service",,,,critical,172.16.0.1,80,65534,ZZ,Region,City,node01.example.net,0,"Communications, Service Provider, and Hosting Service",,avalanche-andromeda,andromeda,avalanche,,,,/api/v1/update,node01.example.com,,,,http://example.net,
"2010-02-10 00:00:01",tcp,192.168.0.2,17433,64512,ZZ,Region,City,node02.example.com,0,,,,,critical,172.16.0.2,80,65534,ZZ,Region,City,node02.example.net,0,"Communications, Service Provider, and Hosting Service",,avalanche-andromeda,andromeda,avalanche,,,,/api/v1/update,node02.example.com,,,,http://example.net,
"2010-02-10 00:00:02",tcp,192.168.0.3,29019,64512,ZZ,Region,City,node03.example.com,0,,,,,critical,172.16.0.3,80,65534,ZZ,Region,City,node03.example.net,0,"Communications, Service Provider, and Hosting Service",,avalanche-andromeda,andromeda,avalanche,,,,/api/v1/update,node03.example.com,,,,http://example.net,

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