Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 248803fb2f422222…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 598bac153744e8be1cb22ae3052bda37 SHA-1: bb0ccff70d358272a7b182f08e8dbf6f93c72fca SHA-256: 248803fb2f4222223c9dc17639895547551b34d4f5c7e49619711772b1891607
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, which then likely executes a payload to download and run further malicious code. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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