Malware Analysis Report

2025-06-15 20:58

Sample ID 201019-h7rnsbs88j
Target document-119694370.xls
SHA256 233d4d684d84ec4b742fba24dd2015eca43d9738ed4f498fe4d6e779e1f0c605
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

233d4d684d84ec4b742fba24dd2015eca43d9738ed4f498fe4d6e779e1f0c605

Threat Level: Known bad

The file document-119694370.xls was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

macro trojan banker stealer qakbot

Qakbot/Qbot

Executes dropped EXE

Suspicious Office macro

Office macro that triggers on suspicious action

Loads dropped DLL

Process spawned suspicious child process

Office loads VBA resources, possible macro or embedded object present

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Checks processor information in registry

Enumerates system info in registry

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Creates scheduled task(s)

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2020-10-19 22:59

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 22:59

Reported

2020-10-19 23:05

Platform

win7v200722

Max time kernel

128s

Max time network

19s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-119694370.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\Akuohao\codbw.exe N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 1588 wrote to memory of 2008 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1588 wrote to memory of 2008 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1588 wrote to memory of 2008 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1588 wrote to memory of 2008 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 820 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 820 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 820 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 820 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 1164 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 1164 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 1164 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 1164 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 432 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 432 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 432 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 432 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1164 wrote to memory of 536 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe
PID 1164 wrote to memory of 536 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe
PID 1164 wrote to memory of 536 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe
PID 1164 wrote to memory of 536 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe
PID 1164 wrote to memory of 1812 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1164 wrote to memory of 1812 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1164 wrote to memory of 1812 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1164 wrote to memory of 1812 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1164 wrote to memory of 1812 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1552 wrote to memory of 940 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1552 wrote to memory of 940 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1552 wrote to memory of 940 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1552 wrote to memory of 940 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-119694370.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\Akuohao\codbw.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe

"C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /Create /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /tn hbcpyxku /tr "\"C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe\" /I hbcpyxku" /SC ONCE /Z /ST 01:01 /ET 01:13

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe /C

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe

taskeng.exe {3CF64D30-ACB6-4154-A466-7CF01650362E} S-1-5-18:NT AUTHORITY\System:Service:

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

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

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/1860-1-0x000007FEF7AE0000-0x000007FEF7D5A000-memory.dmp

memory/2008-2-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1588-4-0x0000000006F70000-0x0000000006F74000-memory.dmp

memory/1588-5-0x0000000005F70000-0x0000000005F74000-memory.dmp

memory/1588-8-0x0000000004E70000-0x0000000004E74000-memory.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/820-10-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/820-12-0x0000000002440000-0x0000000002451000-memory.dmp

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1164-15-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/432-17-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/536-19-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/536-21-0x00000000025D0000-0x00000000025E1000-memory.dmp

memory/1164-22-0x0000000000480000-0x00000000004B7000-memory.dmp

memory/1812-23-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Akuohao\codbw.dat

MD5 86eb3860e185d99dbdce354f35ff7be0
SHA1 f549608662afc816e88ff1c5508c5e81fc6c948d
SHA256 4717d5e7feb8bb29fa1061ff9948544b7d2d64d831403e01852542e5040139f8
SHA512 150fbf348f849cc9692a76658348e3fa9aaa9708a6cc39b25956d1e069e9c31a37d76ec5158bd3074b08f3296d07f0f70f740db92279361b8ce219f516aa4c77

memory/940-25-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2020-10-19 22:59

Reported

2020-10-19 23:05

Platform

win10v200722

Max time kernel

85s

Max time network

153s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-119694370.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-119694370.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 4664

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe -x -s 4664

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
N/A 93.184.220.29:80 tcp

Files

memory/3060-0-0x00007FFA6F2E0000-0x00007FFA6F9A6000-memory.dmp

memory/3036-4-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/1564-5-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/1564-6-0x0000018BB5E50000-0x0000018BB5E51000-memory.dmp

memory/1564-7-0x0000018BB5E50000-0x0000018BB5E51000-memory.dmp

memory/1564-9-0x0000018BB6510000-0x0000018BB6511000-memory.dmp

memory/1564-12-0x0000018BB6910000-0x0000018BB6911000-memory.dmp

memory/1564-14-0x0000018BB6910000-0x0000018BB6911000-memory.dmp

memory/1564-16-0x0000018BB6910000-0x0000018BB6911000-memory.dmp

memory/1564-18-0x0000018BB6890000-0x0000018BB6891000-memory.dmp

memory/1564-19-0x0000018BB6890000-0x0000018BB6891000-memory.dmp

memory/1564-20-0x0000018BB6890000-0x0000018BB6891000-memory.dmp