Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 529283ddcc6839c8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cd4c93b2ddfaedc651f75d842c68f7b4 SHA-1: f3517e8d2e69a00afbe87cb04f62c676e3fee5d6 SHA-256: 529283ddcc6839c886d3e74117987abc17f844787ab518c41a45ce5079ffc8a1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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's a Qbot dropper. While no document body or scripts were extracted, the heuristic firing is sufficient to classify it as a malicious document intended to deliver the Qbot malware. The primary attack pattern involves spearphishing attachment, leading to the execution of the embedded malicious content.

Heuristics 1

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