Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e573a88c56690f6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5776ae6c45ee935efb5c61ff511d092e SHA-1: 6329341da4c941d2dc03bbcfd72f07240a9c0520 SHA-256: 1e573a88c56690f6a3371452cd6eb7f4364ebf1bfba5b7d16fb24fb93303adb4
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user to open the malicious spreadsheet, which then likely executes a secondary payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality, aiming to download and execute further malware.

Heuristics 1

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