Malware Analysis Report

2025-06-15 20:58

Sample ID 201019-98hdf9es8e
Target document-1218875531.xls
SHA256 c7119c885b1a28b1bbf2157800e3384e60bc9e4bbeacb607bf58b6158eec27c1
Tags
macro trojan banker stealer qakbot
score
10/10

Table of Contents

Analysis Overview

MITRE ATT&CK

Enterprise Matrix V6

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Signatures

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis Overview

score
10/10

SHA256

c7119c885b1a28b1bbf2157800e3384e60bc9e4bbeacb607bf58b6158eec27c1

Threat Level: Known bad

The file document-1218875531.xls was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

macro trojan banker stealer qakbot

Qakbot/Qbot

Office macro that triggers on suspicious action

Executes dropped EXE

Suspicious Office macro

Loads dropped DLL

Process spawned suspicious child process

Office loads VBA resources, possible macro or embedded object present

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Checks processor information in registry

Enumerates system info in registry

Creates scheduled task(s)

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2020-10-19 22:57

Signatures

Office macro that triggers on suspicious action

macro
Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A N/A N/A

Suspicious Office macro

macro
Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A N/A N/A

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2020-10-19 22:57

Reported

2020-10-19 23:02

Platform

win10v200722

Max time kernel

25s

Max time network

131s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-1218875531.xls"

Signatures

Process spawned suspicious child process

Description Indicator Process Target
Parent C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE is not expected to spawn this process N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\DW\DW20.EXE C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE

Checks processor information in registry

Description Indicator Process Target
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\~MHz C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\ProcessorNameString C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\0 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Enumerates system info in registry

Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\BIOS C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS\SystemFamily C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS\SystemSKU C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
N/A N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
N/A N/A C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe N/A
N/A N/A C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe N/A

Processes

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-1218875531.xls"

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\DW\DW20.EXE

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\DW\DW20.EXE" -x -s 4472

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe -x -s 4472

Network

N/A

Files

memory/592-0-0x00007FFFAF330000-0x00007FFFAF9F6000-memory.dmp

memory/3496-4-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/3816-5-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/3816-6-0x0000023A5C9A0000-0x0000023A5C9A1000-memory.dmp

memory/3816-7-0x0000023A5C9A0000-0x0000023A5C9A1000-memory.dmp

memory/3816-9-0x0000023A5D0F0000-0x0000023A5D0F1000-memory.dmp

memory/3816-12-0x0000023A5D310000-0x0000023A5D311000-memory.dmp

memory/3816-13-0x0000023A5D310000-0x0000023A5D311000-memory.dmp

memory/3816-14-0x0000023A5D310000-0x0000023A5D311000-memory.dmp

memory/3816-15-0x0000023A5D030000-0x0000023A5D031000-memory.dmp

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2020-10-19 22:57

Reported

2020-10-19 23:02

Platform

win7

Max time kernel

123s

Max time network

130s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-1218875531.xls

Signatures

Qakbot/Qbot

trojan banker stealer qakbot

Loads dropped DLL

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe N/A
N/A N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe N/A

Office loads VBA resources, possible macro or embedded object present

Creates scheduled task(s)

persistence
Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe N/A

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 1460 wrote to memory of 1424 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1460 wrote to memory of 1424 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1460 wrote to memory of 1424 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1460 wrote to memory of 1424 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1424 wrote to memory of 304 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1424 wrote to memory of 304 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1424 wrote to memory of 304 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1424 wrote to memory of 304 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1424 wrote to memory of 1412 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe
PID 1424 wrote to memory of 1412 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe
PID 1424 wrote to memory of 1412 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe
PID 1424 wrote to memory of 1412 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe
PID 1424 wrote to memory of 968 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1424 wrote to memory of 968 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1424 wrote to memory of 968 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1424 wrote to memory of 968 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 956 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 956 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 956 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 956 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 688 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 688 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 688 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 688 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 688 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1828 wrote to memory of 1284 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1828 wrote to memory of 1284 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1828 wrote to memory of 1284 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1828 wrote to memory of 1284 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

Processes

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-1218875531.xls

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

"C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe"

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe /C

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe

"C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /Create /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /tn hbtwvpkhsk /tr "\"C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe\" /I hbtwvpkhsk" /SC ONCE /Z /ST 22:58 /ET 23:10

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe /C

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe

taskeng.exe {1186835B-F3E3-4ECB-8856-38FF5F0A23D2} S-1-5-18:NT AUTHORITY\System:Service:

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe /I hbtwvpkhsk

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
N/A 8.8.8.8:53 www.notamuzikaletleri.com udp
N/A 176.53.8.231:443 www.notamuzikaletleri.com tcp

Files

memory/1880-1-0x000007FEF6440000-0x000007FEF66BA000-memory.dmp

memory/1424-2-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1460-4-0x0000000006F70000-0x0000000006F74000-memory.dmp

memory/1460-5-0x0000000005F70000-0x0000000005F74000-memory.dmp

memory/1460-6-0x0000000002F00000-0x0000000002F01000-memory.dmp

memory/1460-10-0x0000000004B80000-0x0000000004B84000-memory.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/304-12-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/304-14-0x0000000002510000-0x0000000002521000-memory.dmp

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1412-17-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/968-19-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/956-21-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/956-23-0x00000000024B0000-0x00000000024C1000-memory.dmp

memory/1412-24-0x0000000000440000-0x0000000000477000-memory.dmp

memory/688-25-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Mvmvvphzayi\yhwuwqfj.dat

MD5 95cb4f0ea0cd94b3b4ee71bb95e27ca0
SHA1 5e5f2135c0e5f6f66e10ab0f159f70c5a286b111
SHA256 7258415fff879e40f50f973db11a0b981b8d26a0de42987abca96dec7f512914
SHA512 c8cd1e4ccbdd2880884a7fa16ceaa26f2d1e8aaf1347844ec3c55c8f0fe3c77bc98bde388c948a5429dfa729c5659c3a7216aaf3de77d164b4dc1b686ef4a3ae

memory/1284-27-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c