Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 407c282914c231d6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a69285bf1f8a6dbba7a085ec863d3d41 SHA-1: d82d2e29514b18ad979f7058ebc49d8989a28108 SHA-256: 407c282914c231d65b8bed67a1e1142b2f0564cf06a8bd78b232b5efd41a527c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The primary attack pattern involves users opening a malicious attachment, leading to the execution of the Qbot malware. No scripts or document body were extracted, but the ClamAV signature is highly indicative of Qbot's typical delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 1

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