Malware Analysis Report

2025-05-05 21:39

Sample ID 201020-jfq1d7ewqj
Target doc_pack-354296473.xls
SHA256 ac48821ef871297003b40856e530e47f6d4f5935aed8dde6a6736850a98f9d49
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

ac48821ef871297003b40856e530e47f6d4f5935aed8dde6a6736850a98f9d49

Threat Level: Known bad

The file doc_pack-354296473.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

Creates scheduled task(s)

Enumerates system info in registry

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Checks processor information in registry

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2020-10-20 22:25

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

2020-10-20 22:25

Reported

2020-10-20 22:35

Platform

win7v200722

Max time kernel

112s

Max time network

18s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\doc_pack-354296473.xls

Signatures

Qakbot/Qbot

trojan banker stealer qakbot

Loads dropped DLL

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe N/A
N/A N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.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\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 1436 wrote to memory of 2004 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe
PID 1436 wrote to memory of 2004 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe
PID 1436 wrote to memory of 2004 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe
PID 1436 wrote to memory of 2004 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe
PID 2004 wrote to memory of 1052 N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe
PID 2004 wrote to memory of 1052 N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe
PID 2004 wrote to memory of 1052 N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe
PID 2004 wrote to memory of 1052 N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe
PID 2004 wrote to memory of 292 N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe
PID 2004 wrote to memory of 292 N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe
PID 2004 wrote to memory of 292 N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe
PID 2004 wrote to memory of 292 N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe
PID 2004 wrote to memory of 856 N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 2004 wrote to memory of 856 N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 2004 wrote to memory of 856 N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 2004 wrote to memory of 856 N/A C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
PID 292 wrote to memory of 1064 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe
PID 292 wrote to memory of 1064 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe
PID 292 wrote to memory of 1064 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe
PID 292 wrote to memory of 1064 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe
PID 292 wrote to memory of 1080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 292 wrote to memory of 1080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 292 wrote to memory of 1080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 292 wrote to memory of 1080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 292 wrote to memory of 1080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
PID 1480 wrote to memory of 892 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe
PID 1480 wrote to memory of 892 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe
PID 1480 wrote to memory of 892 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe
PID 1480 wrote to memory of 892 N/A C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.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\doc_pack-354296473.xls

C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe

"C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe"

C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe

C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe /C

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe

"C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /Create /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /tn xjcfztpk /tr "\"C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe\" /I xjcfztpk" /SC ONCE /Z /ST 00:31 /ET 00:43

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe /C

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe

taskeng.exe {5C89B302-F627-41D0-A7AD-705AA78E3962} S-1-5-18:NT AUTHORITY\System:Service:

C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe

C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe /I xjcfztpk

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
N/A 8.8.8.8:53 blog.vokasidev.com udp
N/A 68.65.123.245:80 blog.vokasidev.com tcp

Files

memory/1856-2-0x000007FEF8540000-0x000007FEF87BA000-memory.dmp

memory/2004-3-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe

MD5 cd1d9f1f22120d080cb52057a7d9fb96
SHA1 d428fda3e1be91a246628fca76f5d0fe8d53e04d
SHA256 76ca0f3d7cc3c4231e242c4a90ecfd5da244d4df64cfc3c95da1ce321e1c3852
SHA512 4613044a3671f11652c338bd1474826c3614152aa04c9118cb2bd643519679948a0eff22d4b33fe732144a24618174d729f099b4b964aa9d505b6a72552c533f

memory/1436-5-0x0000000006FC0000-0x0000000006FC4000-memory.dmp

memory/1436-6-0x0000000005FC0000-0x0000000005FC4000-memory.dmp

memory/1436-9-0x0000000004CF0000-0x0000000004CF4000-memory.dmp

C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe

MD5 cd1d9f1f22120d080cb52057a7d9fb96
SHA1 d428fda3e1be91a246628fca76f5d0fe8d53e04d
SHA256 76ca0f3d7cc3c4231e242c4a90ecfd5da244d4df64cfc3c95da1ce321e1c3852
SHA512 4613044a3671f11652c338bd1474826c3614152aa04c9118cb2bd643519679948a0eff22d4b33fe732144a24618174d729f099b4b964aa9d505b6a72552c533f

memory/1052-11-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe

MD5 cd1d9f1f22120d080cb52057a7d9fb96
SHA1 d428fda3e1be91a246628fca76f5d0fe8d53e04d
SHA256 76ca0f3d7cc3c4231e242c4a90ecfd5da244d4df64cfc3c95da1ce321e1c3852
SHA512 4613044a3671f11652c338bd1474826c3614152aa04c9118cb2bd643519679948a0eff22d4b33fe732144a24618174d729f099b4b964aa9d505b6a72552c533f

memory/1052-13-0x00000000025B0000-0x00000000025C1000-memory.dmp

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe

MD5 cd1d9f1f22120d080cb52057a7d9fb96
SHA1 d428fda3e1be91a246628fca76f5d0fe8d53e04d
SHA256 76ca0f3d7cc3c4231e242c4a90ecfd5da244d4df64cfc3c95da1ce321e1c3852
SHA512 4613044a3671f11652c338bd1474826c3614152aa04c9118cb2bd643519679948a0eff22d4b33fe732144a24618174d729f099b4b964aa9d505b6a72552c533f

\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe

MD5 cd1d9f1f22120d080cb52057a7d9fb96
SHA1 d428fda3e1be91a246628fca76f5d0fe8d53e04d
SHA256 76ca0f3d7cc3c4231e242c4a90ecfd5da244d4df64cfc3c95da1ce321e1c3852
SHA512 4613044a3671f11652c338bd1474826c3614152aa04c9118cb2bd643519679948a0eff22d4b33fe732144a24618174d729f099b4b964aa9d505b6a72552c533f

memory/292-16-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe

MD5 cd1d9f1f22120d080cb52057a7d9fb96
SHA1 d428fda3e1be91a246628fca76f5d0fe8d53e04d
SHA256 76ca0f3d7cc3c4231e242c4a90ecfd5da244d4df64cfc3c95da1ce321e1c3852
SHA512 4613044a3671f11652c338bd1474826c3614152aa04c9118cb2bd643519679948a0eff22d4b33fe732144a24618174d729f099b4b964aa9d505b6a72552c533f

memory/856-18-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe

MD5 cd1d9f1f22120d080cb52057a7d9fb96
SHA1 d428fda3e1be91a246628fca76f5d0fe8d53e04d
SHA256 76ca0f3d7cc3c4231e242c4a90ecfd5da244d4df64cfc3c95da1ce321e1c3852
SHA512 4613044a3671f11652c338bd1474826c3614152aa04c9118cb2bd643519679948a0eff22d4b33fe732144a24618174d729f099b4b964aa9d505b6a72552c533f

memory/1064-20-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.exe

MD5 cd1d9f1f22120d080cb52057a7d9fb96
SHA1 d428fda3e1be91a246628fca76f5d0fe8d53e04d
SHA256 76ca0f3d7cc3c4231e242c4a90ecfd5da244d4df64cfc3c95da1ce321e1c3852
SHA512 4613044a3671f11652c338bd1474826c3614152aa04c9118cb2bd643519679948a0eff22d4b33fe732144a24618174d729f099b4b964aa9d505b6a72552c533f

memory/1064-22-0x00000000024D0000-0x00000000024E1000-memory.dmp

memory/292-23-0x0000000001E50000-0x0000000001E87000-memory.dmp

memory/1080-24-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Piwmzx\puqtew.dat

MD5 4000465426d533f802043755b96cd8e9
SHA1 73e8c72634b1227761c60efbe787364cdd6e0bae
SHA256 c4556ccf8623678cbae616c372d2d30e1393ea0064ce52a0908ce5d7ede1a330
SHA512 cbbd086098e923e471c92af3addb96b440e9de6b8e47545c75d5b32cfdcaec7952b7fa9ac3e78399709338d5452f1a5ae886eb8452afd9da7f538fde51e06582

memory/892-26-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\COsuv\Wegerb\szvMhegn.exe

MD5 cd1d9f1f22120d080cb52057a7d9fb96
SHA1 d428fda3e1be91a246628fca76f5d0fe8d53e04d
SHA256 76ca0f3d7cc3c4231e242c4a90ecfd5da244d4df64cfc3c95da1ce321e1c3852
SHA512 4613044a3671f11652c338bd1474826c3614152aa04c9118cb2bd643519679948a0eff22d4b33fe732144a24618174d729f099b4b964aa9d505b6a72552c533f

\??\PIPE\wkssvc

MD5 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
SHA1 da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709
SHA256 e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
SHA512 cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2020-10-20 22:25

Reported

2020-10-20 22:35

Platform

win10

Max time kernel

145s

Max time network

149s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\doc_pack-354296473.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\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
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\~MHz 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\doc_pack-354296473.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 4428

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe

C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe -x -s 4428

Network

N/A

Files

memory/3404-0-0x00007FFEADAA0000-0x00007FFEAE166000-memory.dmp

memory/3404-1-0x00000132648CA000-0x00000132648CF000-memory.dmp

memory/2804-4-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/3648-5-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/3648-6-0x0000012B1ECB0000-0x0000012B1ECB1000-memory.dmp

memory/3648-7-0x0000012B1ECB0000-0x0000012B1ECB1000-memory.dmp

memory/3648-9-0x0000012B1F4D0000-0x0000012B1F4D1000-memory.dmp

memory/3648-12-0x0000012B1F6F0000-0x0000012B1F6F1000-memory.dmp

memory/3648-13-0x0000012B1F6F0000-0x0000012B1F6F1000-memory.dmp

memory/3648-14-0x0000012B1F6F0000-0x0000012B1F6F1000-memory.dmp