Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59601c8f58ea0ebc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 97a8ef558f7c966434936ba790ff7fc4 SHA-1: b118d6cc88188898b91c71d13e36fe566605063e SHA-256: 59601c8f58ea0ebc15ee83fb07d054446369822d379b57503930def188606431
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it's a Qbot variant. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which would then initiate the download of a malicious payload. The heuristic firing directly points to its dropper functionality.

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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