Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4220a460c021e6fb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2682ae8fa53d170da9a8c0feac8efb2c SHA-1: 3fbbf21a17221cb57caa3f2dd6e77bde5080ac2c SHA-256: 4220a460c021e6fbf9a3698c92e323b3962b5574bc3a3aa404caf95c0d51a011
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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 functions as a Qbot dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious document, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the malware download and execution chain. No specific scripts or document body content were extracted for further analysis of the execution flow.

Heuristics 1

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