Unmasking QakBot: A Deep Dive into Osquery for Enhanced Detection and Response

**Executive summary:** This report describes QakBot (a long-running banking trojan) and offers osquery-based detection and response guidance, including example queries targeting suspicious processes, scheduled tasks, filesystem artifacts, and registry changes tied to known QakBot IOCs; it emphasizes QakBot's role as a dropper for ransomware and the need for continuous adaptation of detection rules.