Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
139s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260129-en - resource tags
- submitted
17/03/2026, 04:19
General
- Target 2026-03-17_554f5704a23ec35d348b9fa77092ce53_conti_elex_emotet.exe
- Size 500KB
- Sample260317-exvxqaev3v
- SHA256 869985182924ca7548289156cb500612a9f171c7e098b04550dbf62ab8f4ebd9
Malware Config
Extracted
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qakbot
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322.742
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sp34
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1553090804
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Protocol
ftp
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Host
192.185.5.208
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Port
21
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Username
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Password
NxdkxAp4dUsY
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Protocol
ftp
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Host
162.241.218.118
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Port
21
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Username
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Password
EcOV0DyGVgVN
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Protocol
ftp
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Host
69.89.31.139
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Port
21
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Username
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Password
fcR7OvyLrMW6!
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Protocol
ftp
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Host
169.207.67.14
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Port
21
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Username
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Password
eQyicNLzzqPN
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71.210.140.93:995
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96.20.84.208:443
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69.70.37.246:990
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189.155.76.117:443
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209.239.4.118:443
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69.1.28.14:2222
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71.56.132.47:2222
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205.200.185.182:2222
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68.83.59.107:443
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68.147.26.96:443
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190.120.196.18:443
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70.53.99.56:32101
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187.192.41.60:443
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50.247.230.33:443
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66.222.88.126:995
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96.83.78.97:443
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69.243.106.9:443
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216.158.122.29:2222
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99.197.172.236:2078
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76.69.238.238:2222
Signatures
- Qakbot family
- Qakbot/Qbot
Qbot or Qakbot is a sophisticated worm with banking capabilities.
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 4 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery 1 TTPs 2 IoCs
Adversaries may check for Internet connectivity on compromised systems.
- Checks SCSI registry key(s) 3 TTPs 6 IoCs
SCSI information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.
- Runs ping.exe 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 6 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 3 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-03-17_554f5704a23ec35d348b9fa77092ce53_conti_elex_emotet.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-03-17_554f5704a23ec35d348b9fa77092ce53_conti_elex_emotet.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-03-17_554f5704a23ec35d348b9fa77092ce53_conti_elex_emotet.exeC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-03-17_554f5704a23ec35d348b9fa77092ce53_conti_elex_emotet.exe /C2⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Checks SCSI registry key(s)
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe"C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c ping.exe -n 6 127.0.0.1 & type "C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe" > "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-03-17_554f5704a23ec35d348b9fa77092ce53_conti_elex_emotet.exe"2⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXEping.exe -n 6 127.0.0.13⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery
- Runs ping.exe
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
memory/3672-4-0x00000000005E0000-0x00000000005E7000-memory.dmp
memory/3672-5-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000483000-memory.dmp
memory/3672-8-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000483000-memory.dmp
memory/3672-9-0x0000000002230000-0x00000000022AA000-memory.dmp
memory/4376-0-0x0000000000620000-0x0000000000627000-memory.dmp
memory/4376-1-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000483000-memory.dmp
memory/4376-10-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000483000-memory.dmp
memory/4376-11-0x0000000002370000-0x00000000023EA000-memory.dmp