Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85cc527521d90b91…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5e6b294d7645143af18d2046effa9c4b SHA-1: 1802c5f0520d7c7ff19ab7ccafee38aabcb6cf52 SHA-256: 85cc527521d90b9139a435eae3ce1ad297eef00cf5f2ce746fb0fa1e2f288354
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 identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its function as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The detection name suggests it's a malicious Excel document intended to deliver a secondary payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, leading to the execution of the dropped malware.

Heuristics 1

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