General

  • Target

    FedTaxUS2021.zip

  • Size

    6.6MB

  • Sample

    230328-k5xn6sbg9t

  • MD5

    ba251ec9906aed7385b84fe338d14b4a

  • SHA1

    66645844443eb214af0676fd1bb0467a32e63518

  • SHA256

    3fb8bf3a22c854a1b7f94dcbbdf647036cce8ba7353d8358e5f0fb94a5a0df76

  • SHA512

    804331f846d64b320e69aba400d66c0faa7e68bbabfd160efe162f2c919caabf1dc8500ce7f602d4b66927d69a04a3a85027f00432cb310b7de8ec331e7377b6

  • SSDEEP

    196608:Q1SZ6ufJQEjVdm0w8ay2xN6YveDgzUUDv1/:evvKm0wsPDqbx/

Malware Config

Targets

    • Target

      FedTaxUS2021/FedTaxUS.pdf.lnk

    • Size

      2KB

    • MD5

      83c0ef791c1898ea398b8f3f5d45d373

    • SHA1

      b2921d538d998101e7d1c348fa4b0420395b01d3

    • SHA256

      de78ba7cedda5de72f399a0bd7b597e880ebd517144bbeb2dd0a4e12d353d749

    • SHA512

      a76d11bcce8226b36fbfb32b94dbb16b63201254cdde9a063300649ff8234002aefdd37c932abbdc0c15bdade261ff4668b73413d5a4a904e85a67917bac9732

    • Guloader,Cloudeye

      A shellcode based downloader first seen in 2020.

    • Blocklisted process makes network request

    • Checks QEMU agent file

      Checks presence of QEMU agent, possibly to detect virtualization.

    • Checks computer location settings

      Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.

    • Adds Run key to start application

    • Suspicious use of NtCreateThreadExHideFromDebugger

    • Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger

    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

Persistence

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

1
T1060

Defense Evasion

Modify Registry

2
T1112

Discovery

Query Registry

3
T1012

System Information Discovery

4
T1082

Tasks