Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8127b2ae2a287cc3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a27b56108a460a6c28b451a1a19fdd22 SHA-1: 51977e0111376bfbfeac271a3678787d848f8cde SHA-256: 8127b2ae2a287cc37f226b94d6b030f7fbaae96f80c7e220697dfb52df386771
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 Qbot family activity. The detection name suggests it functions as a dropper, likely employing social engineering to trick users into enabling macros. Once enabled, it would proceed to download and execute a secondary malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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