Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 522de578162153df…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d65c4c51bd9cead03da94ee186001bd7 SHA-1: 4293ac643421b1b8ce7a9cbece6b5793c7c67eca SHA-256: 522de578162153df1f91aa3ec35401a91f7608e63dce57e6e30ae0509f34d836
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 is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel file to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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

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