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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a6ecb1d2078e366…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ec7a76a82fff9b5b686e4c25317229e8 SHA-1: f466c00c477f8e7be6d08027d210eced3b333014 SHA-256: 4a6ecb1d2078e36628e7d318d7a1e825dfe78d9039b0be3dba3dacb7a9b4109a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to convince the user to enable macros. Once enabled, the macro would execute, likely downloading and running a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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