Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 533bf5795c7d5c56…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: da599e39f23f8f8527c8a4d403b62f2d SHA-1: 21d2e104fe87554a67485bd928216c1127267b85 SHA-256: 533bf5795c7d5c567f9ce1164e35150ca4a9472d7f27db1f97f807b9c0b7365a
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 an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening the malicious spreadsheet, which then executes a payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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