Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f5887866e2634a7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 54c0980f9b3094d8f8915cbd0d5df824 SHA-1: a92742937474b8518990b093d4ec3146026b91a6 SHA-256: 1f5887866e2634a79220a1ba6877c2cdb970b5f0757d9bef04de1d2544b9e17e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The nature of droppers is to download and execute a secondary payload, often leveraging macro execution within the document. This aligns with the typical attack pattern of Qbot, which is frequently distributed via malicious Office documents.

Heuristics 1

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