Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21c737a17ed53277…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cc436820275c29428bda39322d67cf4d SHA-1: c63ca81cea0881ed347c1100726e45b8620514a4 SHA-256: 21c737a17ed5327716a3b6808deefd1a39f39e347960875ce6621caba6fea083
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the execution of the embedded malicious payload. The file's nature as a dropper suggests it downloads and executes a secondary-stage malware.

Heuristics 1

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

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