Default Cobalt Strike Team Server Certificate

Last updated 22 days ago on 2025-04-22
Created 5 years ago on 2020-10-05

About

This rule detects the use of the default Cobalt Strike Team Server TLS certificate. Cobalt Strike is software for Adversary Simulations and Red Team Operations which are security assessments that replicate the tactics and techniques of an advanced adversary in a network. Modifications to the Packetbeat configuration can be made to include MD5 and SHA256 hashing algorithms (the default is SHA1). See the References section for additional information on module configuration.
Tags
Tactic: Command and ControlThreat: Cobalt StrikeUse Case: Threat DetectionDomain: EndpointLanguage: kuery
Severity
high
Risk Score
73
MITRE ATT&CK™

Command and Control (TA0011)(opens in a new tab or window)

License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Query (Kibana Query Language)
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
packetbeat-*auditbeat-*filebeat-*logs-network_traffic.*
Related Integrations

network_traffic(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
(event.dataset: network_traffic.tls or event.category: (network or network_traffic))
  and (tls.server.hash.md5:950098276A495286EB2A2556FBAB6D83
  or tls.server.hash.sha1:6ECE5ECE4192683D2D84E25B0BA7E04F9CB7EB7C
  or tls.server.hash.sha256:87F2085C32B6A2CC709B365F55873E207A9CAA10BFFECF2FD16D3CF9D94D390C)

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Default Cobalt Strike Team Server Certificate in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(opens in a new tab or window).