Malware Analysis Report

2025-06-15 20:59

Sample ID 201019-tr9wx864bs
Target document-101080833.xls
SHA256 8b2c54beed29f20ea0cc91fcc6a3d0a34928d351d36019c7f40bc667715d71b8
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

8b2c54beed29f20ea0cc91fcc6a3d0a34928d351d36019c7f40bc667715d71b8

Threat Level: Known bad

The file document-101080833.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

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Enumerates system info in registry

Checks processor information in registry

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

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: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2020-10-19 22:57

Reported

2020-10-19 22:59

Platform

win7v200722

Max time kernel

147s

Max time network

18s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-101080833.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\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 1304 wrote to memory of 1948 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1304 wrote to memory of 1948 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1304 wrote to memory of 1948 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1304 wrote to memory of 1948 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1948 wrote to memory of 1992 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1948 wrote to memory of 1992 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1948 wrote to memory of 1992 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1948 wrote to memory of 1992 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 1948 wrote to memory of 432 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe
PID 1948 wrote to memory of 432 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe
PID 1948 wrote to memory of 432 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe
PID 1948 wrote to memory of 432 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe
PID 1948 wrote to memory of 1860 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1948 wrote to memory of 1860 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1948 wrote to memory of 1860 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 1948 wrote to memory of 1860 N/A C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 432 wrote to memory of 1764 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe
PID 432 wrote to memory of 1764 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe
PID 432 wrote to memory of 1764 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe
PID 432 wrote to memory of 1764 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe
PID 432 wrote to memory of 964 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 432 wrote to memory of 964 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 432 wrote to memory of 964 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 432 wrote to memory of 964 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 432 wrote to memory of 964 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 948 wrote to memory of 1476 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 948 wrote to memory of 1476 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 948 wrote to memory of 1476 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe
PID 948 wrote to memory of 1476 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-101080833.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\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe

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

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe /C

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe

taskeng.exe {FBA870AD-F7ED-4C38-BF20-3EA3014FC58C} S-1-5-18:NT AUTHORITY\System:Service:

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

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

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/1832-1-0x000007FEF8550000-0x000007FEF87CA000-memory.dmp

memory/1948-2-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1304-4-0x0000000006F30000-0x0000000006F34000-memory.dmp

memory/1304-5-0x0000000005F30000-0x0000000005F34000-memory.dmp

memory/1304-8-0x0000000004C00000-0x0000000004C04000-memory.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1992-10-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1992-12-0x0000000002520000-0x0000000002531000-memory.dmp

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/432-15-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1860-17-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1764-19-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

memory/1764-21-0x0000000002560000-0x0000000002571000-memory.dmp

memory/432-22-0x0000000000440000-0x0000000000477000-memory.dmp

memory/964-23-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Geeihkkeaeo\fsyit.dat

MD5 41c873ec532e32c80ad9816c0527d47f
SHA1 fa98ce1de2ba22a4ac509dfa8135ceaf91aec46d
SHA256 c709013c1198cc6751021a240dfc33dc4494960ee7edf6f914badcb1852766ea
SHA512 34b321b10a62bb1e45316af47d22deb24bfd9062a86b1d2fa8064ff47b170fe617729349376414cdea82d5d45746beeb864dc826e1a7883bc2bd03fa3fdf4055

memory/1476-25-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\WErtu\Reterd\szvmhegu.exe

MD5 d6fc3c7b2c6846ef8f4808a1076203b8
SHA1 b3c9c1a74616f00b212a7fa8159ee93e29d3f5b9
SHA256 c0b98e6c6da8a393b6163c3100ccf227b40bde4c0e0fa104ec74914830c180de
SHA512 91c955cfde42dea1b850de37945b29aee87a54f352533b661cdebc5ad261896682d313e7a7834d22b58983d0deef92f77f08ea9ba7a9252a94a070decf211c5c

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2020-10-19 22:57

Reported

2020-10-19 22:59

Platform

win10v200722

Max time kernel

18s

Max time network

131s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\document-101080833.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-101080833.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 4516

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe -x -s 4516

Network

N/A

Files

memory/3608-0-0x00007FFB39A80000-0x00007FFB3A146000-memory.dmp

memory/4020-4-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/3328-5-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/3328-6-0x00000216FC750000-0x00000216FC751000-memory.dmp

memory/3328-7-0x00000216FC750000-0x00000216FC751000-memory.dmp

memory/3328-9-0x0000021680510000-0x0000021680511000-memory.dmp

memory/3328-12-0x0000021680820000-0x0000021680821000-memory.dmp

memory/3328-13-0x0000021680820000-0x0000021680821000-memory.dmp

memory/3328-14-0x0000021680820000-0x0000021680821000-memory.dmp