How To Extract & Decrypt Qbot Configs Across Variants

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Qbot is a common banking malware that calls out to dozens of domains which need to be blocked. These networking IOCs are stored in an encrypted configuration resource file within the malware. This video will show you how to extract and decrypt the networking configuration so you can quickly identify all the IOCs with minimal effort and 100% accuracy. You will use several techniques shown in previous videos in order to accomplish that goal.

Sample 1: bfcc44f774aa4363939aedbf6d19bffe8861a9922fbdf2dc15e8a34580638f9c
Sample 2: da05722fd87989e188845773fce82c382b40d18e48130afa1f985cac6f63ca0f

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Newer sample from October 2022 the config extractors people wrote to automate this aren't working on.

Haven't tried this method may have to give it a whirl.