Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c87443657182829…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bc8f254dc63df16475e656164930843e SHA-1: c6874119619f8abc294596fa6f53c53df1b1e3f8 SHA-256: 1c87443657182829029fe7194d617c3c756d915ae02fd2c42af55c2f636f0fa0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious File

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The primary function is to deliver and execute a malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution to achieve this. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

  • ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0