qakbot | a23ef053cccf6a35fda9adc5f1702ba99a7be695107d3ba5d1ea8c9c258299e4

General

Target

8888888.exe
Size

1.2MB
MD5

136b9c85525ba66276b8c9f6b7014b0b
SHA1

0cf5ba13d14c28c60586c7f4b9679925fa4d4172
SHA256

a23ef053cccf6a35fda9adc5f1702ba99a7be695107d3ba5d1ea8c9c258299e4
SHA512

0c02b116029a7d4f4c44988dc6220ed4050c94cab6e57f4aeb29d8edd0b8b59e74c89d6bd62e6e828826f44ebfb478280051ca289ea712c52d5fd113541e2590
SSDEEP

6144:JanAo3boaSrTBRc6nWF84LvSkgNSjEtIovH6DgJG3uhRtSUgnSt9BYbC38g/T4J:JaAKoRrTBHWC4LINSjA/EMGU/SHomaI

Score

10^/10

qakbot spx133 1591267427 banker cryptone discovery packer stealer trojan

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

qakbot

Version

324.142

Botnet

spx133

Campaign

1591267427

C2

49.144.84.21:443

189.159.133.162:995

173.245.152.231:443

77.237.181.212:995

207.255.161.8:2078

76.187.8.160:443

207.255.161.8:2087

98.219.77.197:443

66.222.88.126:995

207.255.161.8:32102

108.58.9.238:995

47.152.210.233:443

1.40.42.4:443

188.27.71.163:443

82.127.193.151:2222

104.50.141.139:995

67.83.54.76:2222

86.126.97.183:2222

73.94.229.115:443

47.35.182.97:443

Signatures

Qakbot/Qbot
Qbot or Qakbot is a sophisticated worm with banking capabilities.
trojan banker stealer qakbot

CryptOne packer 1 IoCs

Detects CryptOne packer defined in NCC blogpost.

cryptone packer

Processes:

resource	yara_rule
behavioral1/files/0x0008000000016688-10.dat	cryptone

Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs

Processes:

akogqw.exeakogqw.exe

pid	Process
2708	akogqw.exe
2720	akogqw.exe

Loads dropped DLL 2 IoCs

Processes:

8888888.exe

pid	Process
2648	8888888.exe
2648	8888888.exe

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 7 IoCs

Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

discovery

System Language Discovery

T1614.001

Processes:

8888888.exe8888888.exeakogqw.exeschtasks.exeakogqw.exeexplorer.exe8888888.exe

description	ioc	Process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	8888888.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	8888888.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	akogqw.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	schtasks.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	akogqw.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	explorer.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	8888888.exe

Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.

persistence execution

Scheduled Task

T1053.005

Processes:

schtasks.exe

pid	Process
2688	schtasks.exe

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 8 IoCs

Processes:

8888888.exe8888888.exeakogqw.exeakogqw.exeexplorer.exe

pid	Process
2648	8888888.exe
2704	8888888.exe
2704	8888888.exe
2708	akogqw.exe
2720	akogqw.exe
2720	akogqw.exe
2556	explorer.exe
2556	explorer.exe

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection 1 IoCs

Processes:

akogqw.exe

pid	Process
2708	akogqw.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 25 IoCs

Processes:

8888888.exeakogqw.exetaskeng.exe

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 2648 wrote to memory of 2704	2648	8888888.exe	30
PID 2648 wrote to memory of 2704	2648	8888888.exe	30
PID 2648 wrote to memory of 2704	2648	8888888.exe	30
PID 2648 wrote to memory of 2704	2648	8888888.exe	30
PID 2648 wrote to memory of 2708	2648	8888888.exe	31
PID 2648 wrote to memory of 2708	2648	8888888.exe	31
PID 2648 wrote to memory of 2708	2648	8888888.exe	31
PID 2648 wrote to memory of 2708	2648	8888888.exe	31
PID 2648 wrote to memory of 2688	2648	8888888.exe	32
PID 2648 wrote to memory of 2688	2648	8888888.exe	32
PID 2648 wrote to memory of 2688	2648	8888888.exe	32
PID 2648 wrote to memory of 2688	2648	8888888.exe	32
PID 2708 wrote to memory of 2720	2708	akogqw.exe	34
PID 2708 wrote to memory of 2720	2708	akogqw.exe	34
PID 2708 wrote to memory of 2720	2708	akogqw.exe	34
PID 2708 wrote to memory of 2720	2708	akogqw.exe	34
PID 2708 wrote to memory of 2556	2708	akogqw.exe	35
PID 2708 wrote to memory of 2556	2708	akogqw.exe	35
PID 2708 wrote to memory of 2556	2708	akogqw.exe	35
PID 2708 wrote to memory of 2556	2708	akogqw.exe	35
PID 2708 wrote to memory of 2556	2708	akogqw.exe	35
PID 1848 wrote to memory of 1780	1848	taskeng.exe	37
PID 1848 wrote to memory of 1780	1848	taskeng.exe	37
PID 1848 wrote to memory of 1780	1848	taskeng.exe	37
PID 1848 wrote to memory of 1780	1848	taskeng.exe	37

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\8888888.exe
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\8888888.exe"
1⤵
- Loads dropped DLL
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:2648
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\8888888.exe
  C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\8888888.exe /C
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
  PID:2704
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ypovbmovauya\akogqw.exe
  C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ypovbmovauya\akogqw.exe
  2⤵
  - Executes dropped EXE
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
  - Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection
  - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
  PID:2708
- - C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ypovbmovauya\akogqw.exe
    C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ypovbmovauya\akogqw.exe /C
    3⤵
    - Executes dropped EXE
    - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    - Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    PID:2720
- - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe
    3⤵
    - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    - Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    PID:2556
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
  "C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /Create /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /tn chetcor /tr "\"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\8888888.exe\" /I chetcor" /SC ONCE /Z /ST 08:25 /ET 08:37
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
  PID:2688

C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
taskeng.exe {290D7BA3-8E21-452C-9DCD-E3560330E6F0} S-1-5-18:NT AUTHORITY\System:Service:
1⤵
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:1848
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\8888888.exe
  C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\8888888.exe /I chetcor
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:1780

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

Reconnaissance

Resource Development

Initial Access

Execution

Scheduled Task/Job

1

T1053

Scheduled Task

1

T1053.005

Persistence

Scheduled Task/Job

1

T1053

Scheduled Task

1

T1053.005

Privilege Escalation

Scheduled Task/Job

1

T1053

Scheduled Task

1

T1053.005

Defense Evasion

Credential Access

Discovery

System Location Discovery

1

T1614

System Language Discovery

1

T1614.001

Lateral Movement

Collection

Command and Control

Exfiltration

Impact

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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ypovbmovauya\akogqw.dat

Filesize
63B

MD5
831c8c566490021227036e120ec94ef8

SHA1
da738c347c6cbea165ab68a3d17c0d5943bfc29d

SHA256
e278985768941167f88b58932ef32d8efac2bea627d45e75e0518c0b3d63a344

SHA512
fecb94d174a4c6939045dd96850f3707668b216c7e2d80ac5bb191999cc37fad5ec08eb6ca9cbf4270dd71d347e337371f4f8d45be0d351ad4c0dc4f063d169a

Download Submit
\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Ypovbmovauya\akogqw.exe

Filesize
1.2MB

MD5
136b9c85525ba66276b8c9f6b7014b0b

SHA1
0cf5ba13d14c28c60586c7f4b9679925fa4d4172

SHA256
a23ef053cccf6a35fda9adc5f1702ba99a7be695107d3ba5d1ea8c9c258299e4

SHA512
0c02b116029a7d4f4c44988dc6220ed4050c94cab6e57f4aeb29d8edd0b8b59e74c89d6bd62e6e828826f44ebfb478280051ca289ea712c52d5fd113541e2590

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memory/2556-26-0x00000000001D0000-0x0000000000203000-memory.dmp

Filesize
204KB

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memory/2556-33-0x00000000001D0000-0x0000000000203000-memory.dmp

Filesize
204KB

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memory/2556-30-0x00000000001D0000-0x0000000000203000-memory.dmp

Filesize
204KB

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memory/2556-31-0x00000000001D0000-0x0000000000203000-memory.dmp

Filesize
204KB

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memory/2648-1-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000043A000-memory.dmp

Filesize
232KB

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memory/2648-3-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000043A000-memory.dmp

Filesize
232KB

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memory/2648-2-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052D000-memory.dmp

Filesize
1.2MB

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memory/2648-0-0x0000000000240000-0x0000000000277000-memory.dmp

Filesize
220KB

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memory/2648-17-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052D000-memory.dmp

Filesize
1.2MB

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memory/2648-18-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000043A000-memory.dmp

Filesize
232KB

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memory/2704-5-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052D000-memory.dmp

Filesize
1.2MB

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memory/2704-6-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052D000-memory.dmp

Filesize
1.2MB

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memory/2704-4-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052D000-memory.dmp

Filesize
1.2MB

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memory/2708-23-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052D000-memory.dmp

Filesize
1.2MB

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memory/2708-20-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052D000-memory.dmp

Filesize
1.2MB

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memory/2708-29-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052D000-memory.dmp

Filesize
1.2MB

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memory/2708-19-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052D000-memory.dmp

Filesize
1.2MB

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memory/2720-25-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052D000-memory.dmp

Filesize
1.2MB

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Analysis

Sharing

General

Malware Config

Extracted

Signatures

Processes

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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