Malicious Office (OOXML) / .XLSX — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 279cec54f9e89901…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4aaf2c55b318578f37c2ecab5b9ff94b SHA-1: df95b7f0c747f5ab9b8b53144311dcc9e7be3a5c SHA-256: 279cec54f9e89901128de5bb88e9c3857d679f8cf598d3df9cd83e990408d786
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper. This suggests it is intended to download and execute a secondary payload, likely Qbot malware, onto the victim's system. The specific dropper variant indicates a common technique for initial access.

Heuristics 1

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