Malware Analysis Report

2025-06-15 21:00

Sample ID 201019-jwmttwn4ha
Target document-1428003959.xls
SHA256 ad641470dee012ad86a90a53e525f17d03b9fa274794b46c100385de1b2e757a
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

ad641470dee012ad86a90a53e525f17d03b9fa274794b46c100385de1b2e757a

Threat Level: Known bad

The file document-1428003959.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 behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Enumerates system info in registry

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Creates scheduled task(s)

Checks processor information in registry

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2020-10-19 23:32

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 23:32

Reported

2020-10-19 23:35

Platform

win7v200722

Max time kernel

112s

Max time network

33s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-1428003959.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\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 2000 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 2000 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 2000 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1412 wrote to memory of 2000 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 2000 wrote to memory of 1336 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 2000 wrote to memory of 1336 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 2000 wrote to memory of 1336 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 2000 wrote to memory of 1336 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 2000 wrote to memory of 1532 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe
PID 2000 wrote to memory of 1532 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe
PID 2000 wrote to memory of 1532 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe
PID 2000 wrote to memory of 1532 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe
PID 2000 wrote to memory of 588 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 2000 wrote to memory of 588 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 2000 wrote to memory of 588 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 2000 wrote to memory of 588 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1532 wrote to memory of 2040 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe
PID 1532 wrote to memory of 2040 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe
PID 1532 wrote to memory of 2040 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe
PID 1532 wrote to memory of 2040 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe
PID 1532 wrote to memory of 956 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1532 wrote to memory of 956 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1532 wrote to memory of 956 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1532 wrote to memory of 956 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1532 wrote to memory of 956 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1484 wrote to memory of 1116 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1484 wrote to memory of 1116 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1484 wrote to memory of 1116 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1484 wrote to memory of 1116 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-1428003959.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\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe

"C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /Create /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /tn vdedmuq /tr "\"C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe\" /I vdedmuq" /SC ONCE /Z /ST 01:31 /ET 01:43

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe /C

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe

taskeng.exe {EB6C9145-DCD4-4729-A357-CC76819FECF2} S-1-5-18:NT AUTHORITY\System:Service:

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

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

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/1412-0-0x00000000020A0000-0x00000000020A1000-memory.dmp

memory/1412-2-0x00000000020A0000-0x00000000020A1000-memory.dmp

memory/1852-5-0x000007FEF7430000-0x000007FEF76AA000-memory.dmp

memory/2000-6-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/1412-8-0x0000000006F20000-0x0000000006F24000-memory.dmp

memory/1412-9-0x0000000005F20000-0x0000000005F24000-memory.dmp

memory/1412-12-0x0000000004C80000-0x0000000004C84000-memory.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/1336-14-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/1336-16-0x00000000024D0000-0x00000000024E1000-memory.dmp

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/1532-19-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/588-21-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/2040-23-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/2040-25-0x00000000024D0000-0x00000000024E1000-memory.dmp

memory/1532-26-0x0000000000440000-0x0000000000477000-memory.dmp

memory/956-27-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uxvwf\fswhf.dat

MD5 e0e2dd0c772a37fc9c120819f314dd82
SHA1 ee1167a18557aeac1519e794a4591faf637952da
SHA256 2c73bc3a242527e0c5f70cccfa1ad74168083dc20de2e24941fb9b64f1d81d49
SHA512 7cdd856e2df520f33380bf20dc9a428dd392d08d6b7f7326711f81278429a7788d8c6274c00a31d85ec78ff4649b71d26a99418e34aa5b7e44ba2646deab8794

memory/1116-29-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2020-10-19 23:32

Reported

2020-10-19 23:35

Platform

win10v200722

Max time kernel

71s

Max time network

136s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-1428003959.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 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
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\BIOS 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-1428003959.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

N/A

Files

memory/1052-0-0x00007FFEF8DA0000-0x00007FFEF9466000-memory.dmp

memory/3100-3-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/948-4-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/948-5-0x000001B8121C0000-0x000001B8121C1000-memory.dmp

memory/948-6-0x000001B8121C0000-0x000001B8121C1000-memory.dmp

memory/948-8-0x000001B8129D0000-0x000001B8129D1000-memory.dmp

memory/948-11-0x000001B812C10000-0x000001B812C11000-memory.dmp

memory/948-12-0x000001B812C10000-0x000001B812C11000-memory.dmp

memory/948-13-0x000001B812C10000-0x000001B812C11000-memory.dmp