Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1db9f9fad46c57fd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 655b8ee2ea780e693cc088591c73eb6c SHA-1: f373bbdb3b48e7ca27349abcb2220f15bdf6bd59 SHA-256: 1db9f9fad46c57fdcdeea09c224c6be329db17504bb692d4e6974c3bf2b9302a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper, indicating its primary function is to deliver the Qbot malware. The detection signature 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0' strongly suggests a malicious Excel document intended for malware distribution. This points to a phishing attack where the user is tricked into opening the malicious attachment.

Heuristics 1

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