Anjali Raut

Your Office Document is at Risk – XLL, A New Attack Vector

Anjali Raut / 3 years

8 min read

Microsoft Office documents are used worldwide by both corporates and home-users alike. It’s different office versions, whether licensed or unlicensed offers users an easy way to create and modify files. However, this software is also susceptible to cyberattacks. Cybercriminals often take advantage of its vulnerability and use VBA (Visual Basic Application) macros as entry […]

QBOT – A HTML Smuggling technique to target victims

Anjali Raut / 4 years
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5 min read

QBot, also known as Qakbot, QuackBot, and Pinkslipbot, is a Banking Trojan that was first observed in 2007. Today, Qbot is still a vicious and persistent threat to organizations and has become one of the leading Banking Trojans globally. Over the years, it has changed its initial techniques to deliver payloads like using VBA macros, […]

What you need to know about the BazarLoader Malware?

Anjali Raut / 5 years

3 min read

At the start of February 2021, Bazarloader malware was in the news about its mechanism of delivering the initial attack vector. It tricks a victim into connecting with a fake call where a threat actor asks to download malicious excel attachments from the portal to infect them. We recently observed that its delivery mechanism is […]

Zloader: Entailing Different Office Files

Anjali Raut / 5 years

5 min read

Zloader aka Terdot – a variant of the infamous Zeus banking malware is well known for aggressively using “.xls”, “.xlsx” documents as its initial vector to deliver its payload. Despite this, recently we have come across “.docm” file which is being used by Zoader family to perform its initial activity. This shows adversaries like to […]

Attacker uses tricky technique of Excel 4.0 in Malspam campaign

Anjali Raut / 7 years

5 min read

Use of Phishing emails is not new for cyber-attack and is still one of the classic strategies to compromise a victim’s machine. Cyber criminals lure victims to open email attachments (mostly Doc and XLS files) by faking them to look like important one using keywords like invoice, payment, finance, order etc. Quick Heal Security Labs […]

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Your Office Document is at Risk – XLL, A New Attack Vector

QBOT – A HTML Smuggling technique to target victims

What you need to know about the BazarLoader Malware?

Zloader: Entailing Different Office Files