Malware Analysis Report

2025-06-15 20:58

Sample ID 201019-cq9beq722x
Target document-1062759035.xls
SHA256 d9b5e7443c3d48d18c5da2ce0dbd958cdc6eac082bede6ba35a8531a5a39470e
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: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis Overview

score
10/10

SHA256

d9b5e7443c3d48d18c5da2ce0dbd958cdc6eac082bede6ba35a8531a5a39470e

Threat Level: Known bad

The file document-1062759035.xls was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

macro trojan banker stealer qakbot

Qakbot/Qbot

Office macro that triggers on suspicious action

Suspicious Office macro

Executes dropped EXE

Loads dropped DLL

Process spawned suspicious child process

Office loads VBA resources, possible macro or embedded object present

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Enumerates system info in registry

Creates scheduled task(s)

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Checks processor information in registry

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

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: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2020-10-19 22:57

Reported

2020-10-19 22:59

Platform

win7v200722

Max time kernel

148s

Max time network

28s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-1062759035.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\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 1516 wrote to memory of 1356 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1516 wrote to memory of 1356 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1516 wrote to memory of 1356 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1516 wrote to memory of 1356 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1356 wrote to memory of 1064 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1356 wrote to memory of 1064 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1356 wrote to memory of 1064 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1356 wrote to memory of 1064 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1356 wrote to memory of 428 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe
PID 1356 wrote to memory of 428 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe
PID 1356 wrote to memory of 428 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe
PID 1356 wrote to memory of 428 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe
PID 1356 wrote to memory of 544 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1356 wrote to memory of 544 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1356 wrote to memory of 544 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1356 wrote to memory of 544 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 428 wrote to memory of 112 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe
PID 428 wrote to memory of 112 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe
PID 428 wrote to memory of 112 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe
PID 428 wrote to memory of 112 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe
PID 428 wrote to memory of 296 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 428 wrote to memory of 296 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 428 wrote to memory of 296 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 428 wrote to memory of 296 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 428 wrote to memory of 296 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 948 wrote to memory of 1856 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 948 wrote to memory of 1856 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 948 wrote to memory of 1856 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 948 wrote to memory of 1856 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-1062759035.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\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe

"C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /Create /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /tn dkvsfiu /tr "\"C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe\" /I dkvsfiu" /SC ONCE /Z /ST 00:56 /ET 01:08

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe /C

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe

taskeng.exe {E89F5B88-B814-41AB-B8E4-C69FBFDCEB13} S-1-5-18:NT AUTHORITY\System:Service:

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

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

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/1972-2-0x000007FEF8560000-0x000007FEF87DA000-memory.dmp

memory/1356-3-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1516-5-0x0000000007150000-0x0000000007154000-memory.dmp

memory/1516-6-0x0000000006150000-0x0000000006154000-memory.dmp

memory/1516-9-0x0000000004F10000-0x0000000004F14000-memory.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1064-11-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1064-13-0x0000000002570000-0x0000000002581000-memory.dmp

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/428-16-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/544-18-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/112-20-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/112-22-0x0000000002530000-0x0000000002541000-memory.dmp

memory/428-23-0x0000000000440000-0x0000000000477000-memory.dmp

memory/296-24-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Digtaqs\irxwa.dat

MD5 2faf3f7ac8a81ff785fde10b241ac50a
SHA1 a2e1646af3233096c9fa50578b2dee12f5e38b1f
SHA256 bef6e4b13624f3c03db82cfb80f10ab55a875a0d3f04e61a9915b48743a248d2
SHA512 58d66459aec29d9c08f8195600a8263de0ed27c4ca285376ccf06f0fbfa3268004070112e5796b37964e9084ac5e99e5a0164d9d408ca4b489af7be3e5a8949e

memory/1856-26-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2020-10-19 22:57

Reported

2020-10-19 22:59

Platform

win10

Max time kernel

10s

Max time network

130s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-1062759035.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 opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\0 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
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

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-1062759035.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 4428

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe -x -s 4428

Network

N/A

Files

memory/4036-0-0x00007FFD5C950000-0x00007FFD5D016000-memory.dmp

memory/2324-3-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/2696-4-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/2696-5-0x0000020E1AC40000-0x0000020E1AC41000-memory.dmp

memory/2696-6-0x0000020E1AC40000-0x0000020E1AC41000-memory.dmp

memory/2696-7-0x0000020E1AC40000-0x0000020E1AC41000-memory.dmp

memory/2696-9-0x0000020E1B440000-0x0000020E1B441000-memory.dmp

memory/2696-12-0x0000020E1B440000-0x0000020E1B441000-memory.dmp

memory/2696-13-0x0000020E1B840000-0x0000020E1B841000-memory.dmp

memory/2696-15-0x0000020E1B760000-0x0000020E1B761000-memory.dmp

memory/2696-16-0x0000020E1B760000-0x0000020E1B761000-memory.dmp

memory/2696-17-0x0000020E1B760000-0x0000020E1B761000-memory.dmp