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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ae6432eff07bcde…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a0f202bab1fec1ddf575fadd9c2575ec SHA-1: aedeb2ee88013333d4942832936726f15f91c4f9 SHA-256: 2ae6432eff07bcde392f5061277bbfe2001d153b806c66ca3aa787764356e193
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', indicating it functions as a dropper. The detection name suggests it is likely part of a Qbot (also known as Qakbot) campaign, which commonly uses macro-enabled documents to download and execute further stages of malware. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to convince the user to enable macros.

Heuristics 1

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