Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e6bab8f0b9194f8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 65121669f8c178f1a78d0f70119474f4 SHA-1: 1460090d2f841a1469cb17eb470672658dff9a4b SHA-256: 3e6bab8f0b9194f8cbd30a801ea1b89686af2bf501a30dc127e6301446a24793
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

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 a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes the embedded malicious payload. Further analysis would be required to determine the exact execution chain and dropped artifacts.

Heuristics 1

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