From ehackingnews.com
Trojan-Banker QakBot, also known by the names – QBot, QuackBot, and Pinkslipbot, is a modular information stealer that has been active for almost 14 years. With the key agenda of stealing banking credentials, QakBot employs various tools to evade detection and hamper manual analysis. The authors have developed the trojan with an aggressive sophistication that allows its variants to essentially deploy additional malware, create a backdoor to infected systems, and log user keystrokes.
Typically, QakBot attacks contain MS Office Word documents that are deployed via phishing emails constructed to trick the user into accessing it. However, in 2020, some of the QakBot campaigns featured ZIP attachments that contained macros within the word document enclosed in the ZIP file. These macros are configured to trigger the execution of a PowerShell script that further downloads the QBot payload from selected internet addresses.