Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56d3514e8a2f1820…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9cbe2cab077212ed6a085e11647964e1 SHA-1: c6e53fb43986b7b65fa1ac7e8dfb0c54db5c27ac SHA-256: 56d3514e8a2f1820225324e524eb12bf68bc72f8a99ae58b38f730d4cf624196
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 functions as a Qbot dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to open the malicious spreadsheet, which then executes the embedded Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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