Malware Analysis Report

2025-06-15 20:58

Sample ID 201019-m12eg3g4ea
Target document-1213073129.xls
SHA256 14476501bbdca525a66facdebfe015d202c8cff21257731b0b20a0ef986deb65
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

14476501bbdca525a66facdebfe015d202c8cff21257731b0b20a0ef986deb65

Threat Level: Known bad

The file document-1213073129.xls was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

macro trojan banker stealer qakbot

Qakbot/Qbot

Executes dropped EXE

Office macro that triggers on suspicious action

Suspicious Office macro

Loads dropped DLL

Process spawned suspicious child process

Office loads VBA resources, possible macro or embedded object present

Checks processor information in registry

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Enumerates system info in registry

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Creates scheduled task(s)

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

80s

Max time network

151s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-1213073129.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-1213073129.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 4764

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe -x -s 4764

Network

N/A

Files

memory/576-0-0x00007FFEAE020000-0x00007FFEAE6E6000-memory.dmp

memory/4008-4-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/3060-5-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/3060-6-0x0000020D0CEB0000-0x0000020D0CEB1000-memory.dmp

memory/3060-7-0x0000020D0CEB0000-0x0000020D0CEB1000-memory.dmp

memory/3060-8-0x0000020D0CEB0000-0x0000020D0CEB1000-memory.dmp

memory/3060-10-0x0000020D0D710000-0x0000020D0D711000-memory.dmp

memory/3060-13-0x0000020D0DB10000-0x0000020D0DB11000-memory.dmp

memory/3060-15-0x0000020D0DB10000-0x0000020D0DB11000-memory.dmp

memory/3060-17-0x0000020D0DB10000-0x0000020D0DB11000-memory.dmp

memory/3060-19-0x0000020D0DA80000-0x0000020D0DA81000-memory.dmp

memory/3060-20-0x0000020D0DA80000-0x0000020D0DA81000-memory.dmp

memory/3060-21-0x0000020D0DA80000-0x0000020D0DA81000-memory.dmp

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2020-10-19 22:57

Reported

2020-10-19 23:02

Platform

win7v200722

Max time kernel

153s

Max time network

23s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-1213073129.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\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 1332 wrote to memory of 1880 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1332 wrote to memory of 1880 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1332 wrote to memory of 1880 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1332 wrote to memory of 1880 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1880 wrote to memory of 1184 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1880 wrote to memory of 1184 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1880 wrote to memory of 1184 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1880 wrote to memory of 1184 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1880 wrote to memory of 644 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe
PID 1880 wrote to memory of 644 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe
PID 1880 wrote to memory of 644 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe
PID 1880 wrote to memory of 644 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe
PID 1880 wrote to memory of 980 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1880 wrote to memory of 980 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1880 wrote to memory of 980 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1880 wrote to memory of 980 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 644 wrote to memory of 1168 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe
PID 644 wrote to memory of 1168 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe
PID 644 wrote to memory of 1168 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe
PID 644 wrote to memory of 1168 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe
PID 644 wrote to memory of 2016 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 644 wrote to memory of 2016 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 644 wrote to memory of 2016 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 644 wrote to memory of 2016 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 644 wrote to memory of 2016 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.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-1213073129.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\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe

"C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /Create /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /tn gwwstfqifu /tr "\"C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe\" /I gwwstfqifu" /SC ONCE /Z /ST 01:06 /ET 01:18

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe /C

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe

taskeng.exe {5975DC50-6DEE-47E0-A073-D9004FA800E7} S-1-5-18:NT AUTHORITY\System:Service:

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

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

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/1840-2-0x000007FEF70C0000-0x000007FEF733A000-memory.dmp

memory/1880-3-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1332-5-0x0000000006F70000-0x0000000006F74000-memory.dmp

memory/1332-6-0x0000000005F70000-0x0000000005F74000-memory.dmp

memory/1332-9-0x0000000004D70000-0x0000000004D74000-memory.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1184-11-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1184-13-0x0000000002530000-0x0000000002541000-memory.dmp

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/644-16-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/980-18-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1168-20-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1168-22-0x0000000002550000-0x0000000002561000-memory.dmp

memory/644-23-0x0000000000440000-0x0000000000477000-memory.dmp

memory/2016-24-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Smvxugvzru\ymcririr.dat

MD5 96753f51599658a25a0a185ce9a99189
SHA1 9ec8341ace243c5254a87d336f395cb89d8ac500
SHA256 c0e5b258aa1351496b07924013442c4cadbf744e1d2a6325aface122e5318786
SHA512 feadcebea47f740c96a94f60667b0e7a67c3f5f2f49d82b1ee0cbede9f6c69fd304d041e69b0ca43b5ce43fc251e078782e74e6c861a7aa042f15d92ff14efa8