Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81dc3e4ac02471e0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9b8be41e74253765ffb084dfa68c0f9b SHA-1: 8ec8796b3d4152c887b49c29702fd41d5cccb4b2 SHA-256: 81dc3e4ac02471e096298e11dc1b423446aa4bdfb16dd65566cbb4386f5abe61
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a Qbot dropper. This type of malware typically relies on social engineering within documents to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute the malicious payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment, leading to the execution of a Qbot variant.

Heuristics 1

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