Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24444dd02d705566…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0266c7e368fcfe954b37fc05f82ea657 SHA-1: 1cb506f9853e51d94a27530eccde8fa850071a7d SHA-256: 24444dd02d705566dc2bc84db647b32a6cab7761591e233791371c74410f98c3
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 variant designed to deliver a payload. The detection name suggests a dropper functionality, likely involving the execution of malicious code to download and run further stages of the attack. This points to a spearphishing attachment delivery method.

Heuristics 1

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