Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59f200e9718781fc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 01f4a571ad1b7de192602b5d04734103 SHA-1: 73a0b4c6fc51ceaeb45ecf446d0946fc564bc145 SHA-256: 59f200e9718781fc0e41b5fefd530a594d8c6eb11c1114a966d6b8331bd37192
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 dropper for the Qbot malware family. Its primary purpose is to deliver and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely through macro execution or exploiting a vulnerability within the spreadsheet application.

Heuristics 1

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