Potential Qakbot Registry Activity

 1title: Potential Qakbot Registry Activity
 2id: 1c8e96cd-2bed-487d-9de0-b46c90cade56
 3status: test
 4description: Detects a registry key used by IceID in a campaign that distributes malicious OneNote files
 5references:
 6    - https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/onenote-growing-threat-malware-distribution
 7author: Hieu Tran
 8date: 2023-03-13
 9tags:
10    - attack.defense-evasion
11    - attack.t1112
12logsource:
13    category: registry_event
14    product: windows
15detection:
16    selection:
17        TargetObject|endswith: '\Software\firm\soft\Name'
18    condition: selection
19falsepositives:
20    - Unknown
21level: high

References

• OneNote: A Growing Threat for Malware Distribution

  

  Zscaler ThreatLabz team observed multiple OneNote malware campaign spreading RATs, Bankers, and Stealer category malware with multi-layer obfuscation.

  
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