Malware Analysis Report

2025-06-15 21:00

Sample ID 201019-qva4nelxpa
Target document-1373255188.xls
SHA256 c9b3cda8ab9fd7374efdc037a97bf8a46c371403319d708d53e66537d022a5af
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

c9b3cda8ab9fd7374efdc037a97bf8a46c371403319d708d53e66537d022a5af

Threat Level: Known bad

The file document-1373255188.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

Enumerates system info in registry

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Creates scheduled task(s)

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

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

win7

Max time kernel

100s

Max time network

13s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-1373255188.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\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 1324 wrote to memory of 1132 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1324 wrote to memory of 1132 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1324 wrote to memory of 1132 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1324 wrote to memory of 1132 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1132 wrote to memory of 560 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1132 wrote to memory of 560 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1132 wrote to memory of 560 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1132 wrote to memory of 560 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1132 wrote to memory of 396 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe
PID 1132 wrote to memory of 396 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe
PID 1132 wrote to memory of 396 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe
PID 1132 wrote to memory of 396 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe
PID 1132 wrote to memory of 308 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1132 wrote to memory of 308 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1132 wrote to memory of 308 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1132 wrote to memory of 308 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 396 wrote to memory of 1448 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe
PID 396 wrote to memory of 1448 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe
PID 396 wrote to memory of 1448 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe
PID 396 wrote to memory of 1448 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe
PID 396 wrote to memory of 272 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 396 wrote to memory of 272 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 396 wrote to memory of 272 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 396 wrote to memory of 272 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 396 wrote to memory of 272 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1524 wrote to memory of 1076 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1524 wrote to memory of 1076 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1524 wrote to memory of 1076 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1524 wrote to memory of 1076 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-1373255188.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\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe

"C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /Create /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /tn crwbuhse /tr "\"C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe\" /I crwbuhse" /SC ONCE /Z /ST 23:38 /ET 23:50

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe /C

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe

taskeng.exe {EC9729DD-BB2C-45F5-ABFE-653D4117C4F0} S-1-5-18:NT AUTHORITY\System:Service:

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

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

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/1252-2-0x000007FEF6300000-0x000007FEF657A000-memory.dmp

memory/1132-3-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/1324-5-0x0000000006F70000-0x0000000006F74000-memory.dmp

memory/1324-6-0x0000000005F70000-0x0000000005F74000-memory.dmp

memory/1324-9-0x0000000004CC0000-0x0000000004CC4000-memory.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/560-11-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/560-13-0x0000000002540000-0x0000000002551000-memory.dmp

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/396-16-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/308-18-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/1448-20-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.exe

MD5 175a22f1afaae79ae9de6c86a4a7ce4f
SHA1 d8521074406f97fe8d2a46646f8dd0acc519ef19
SHA256 2f5b35d9e4e6e1ed0537cc36657c6494f67fde18b32811120a183cb3094a5bdd
SHA512 47cfdff170d6e2b1684654a3390eb167f3a172d790c75a642ffaa7150cef20103905f075bb6291cce1b6560e8c40a7aaf211ba1bcf38f96e9fc811d18c511200

memory/1448-22-0x0000000002510000-0x0000000002521000-memory.dmp

memory/396-23-0x0000000001DA0000-0x0000000001DD7000-memory.dmp

memory/272-24-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ifmnu\ukovtlq.dat

MD5 12a323ddd0c33d0b225cdde921647ba0
SHA1 a5154cf7ec442d2dced10ddd15cabf9f92792714
SHA256 d00eeddd93a9cb4a6fb3c76856d5a92ef6c399a8708f0a0b2b21ee8e4b312a0e
SHA512 3856d0a7ed0bcab016d3a54253c7504051a3aa124e5750bbd6a30d867e18a0ffdfb163adad2c0e272bc0589c76f512775224409ccd266e74bb5b3bc72ab36f6d

memory/1076-26-0x0000000000000000-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

91s

Max time network

156s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-1373255188.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-1373255188.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 4680

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe -x -s 4680

Network

N/A

Files

memory/408-0-0x00007FFBA0B30000-0x00007FFBA11F6000-memory.dmp

memory/1348-3-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/4092-4-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/4092-5-0x000001D52A6B0000-0x000001D52A6B1000-memory.dmp

memory/4092-6-0x000001D52A6B0000-0x000001D52A6B1000-memory.dmp

memory/4092-8-0x000001D52AE50000-0x000001D52AE51000-memory.dmp

memory/4092-11-0x000001D52B1A0000-0x000001D52B1A1000-memory.dmp

memory/4092-12-0x000001D52B1A0000-0x000001D52B1A1000-memory.dmp

memory/4092-13-0x000001D52B1A0000-0x000001D52B1A1000-memory.dmp