Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45457ca1d8e9542f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cf8c80344aa3088a8dc4c92ade62ed12 SHA-1: 74fd760206ae01cfdc56b91e68a0a171abeecec9 SHA-256: 45457ca1d8e9542fc9f393f5db5bac41f42e5ec5e95376a56c6ed01e2e6d09d5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to download and execute a secondary payload. This is a common delivery method for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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