Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59b48973a056fbe2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1f074ad603ca3a3a3eebac118384deb8 SHA-1: 73341c51467d73a0b4c05bb7d2b183c0b1b28b92 SHA-256: 59b48973a056fbe260328b16d2879d1aa85c072cf7018ddc0d09c0481454d4d4
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot variant. This type of dropper typically uses embedded macros to download and execute a secondary payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment, leading to the execution of the Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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