Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5011eb3041fd6a0d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f20556ab7dea96f79acdf8afb963929b SHA-1: 12bf145fd19b7ff1943aeb5600e9df1994ea9502 SHA-256: 5011eb3041fd6a0d03bbadd5dd51486788a939448816747f13df23bb5943668c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. As an Excel file, it likely uses macros or other embedded content to initiate the download and execution of a secondary malicious payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, leveraging the document's appearance to trick the user into enabling malicious content.

Heuristics 1

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