QakBot — Malware Profile
QakBot is a modular banking trojan that has been used primarily by financially-motivated actors since at least 2007. QakBot is continuously maintained and developed and has evolved from an information stealer into a delivery agent for ransomware, most notably ProLock and Egregor.
MITRE ATT&CK techniques (71)
- T1005 Data from Local System
- T1010 Application Window Discovery
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1016.001 Internet Connection Discovery
- T1018 Remote System Discovery
- T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information
- T1027.001 Binary Padding
- T1027.002 Software Packing
- T1027.005 Indicator Removal from Tools
- T1027.006 HTML Smuggling
- T1027.010 Command Obfuscation
- T1027.011 Fileless Storage
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1036.008 Masquerade File Type
- T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- T1047 Windows Management Instrumentation
- T1049 System Network Connections Discovery
- T1053.005 Scheduled Task
- T1055 Process Injection
- T1055.012 Process Hollowing
- T1056.001 Keylogging
- T1057 Process Discovery
- T1059.001 PowerShell
- T1059.003 Windows Command Shell
- T1059.005 Visual Basic
- T1059.007 JavaScript
- T1069.001 Local Groups
- T1070.004 File Deletion
- T1071.001 Web Protocols
- T1074.001 Local Data Staging
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1083 File and Directory Discovery
- T1090.002 External Proxy
- T1091 Replication Through Removable Media
- T1095 Non-Application Layer Protocol
- T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
- T1106 Native API
- T1110 Brute Force
- T1112 Modify Registry
- T1114.001 Local Email Collection
- T1120 Peripheral Device Discovery
- T1124 System Time Discovery
- T1132.001 Standard Encoding
- T1135 Network Share Discovery
- T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1185 Browser Session Hijacking
- T1204.001 Malicious Link
- T1204.002 Malicious File
- T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services
- T1218.007 Msiexec
- T1218.010 Regsvr32
- T1218.011 Rundll32
- T1482 Domain Trust Discovery
- T1497.001 System Checks
- T1497.003 Time Based Checks
- T1518 Software Discovery
- T1518.001 Security Software Discovery
- T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie
- T1543.003 Windows Service
- T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
- T1553.002 Code Signing
- T1553.005 Mark-of-the-Web Bypass
- T1555.003 Credentials from Web Browsers
- T1564.001 Hidden Files and Directories
- T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- T1568.002 Domain Generation Algorithms
- T1572 Protocol Tunneling
- T1573.001 Symmetric Cryptography
- T1574.001 DLL
- T1685 Disable or Modify Tools