Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88d6b7f480341cb6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 68cae833482fce4b36043f290346ab33 SHA-1: 282e3ae85d28149c4be6a4a38134e41572c85bc3 SHA-256: 88d6b7f480341cb6a041eecb487ead7e45b6829c1a8a265b2de163a5941d05a4
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 it is a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a secondary payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality within an Excel document. This points to a phishing attack where the user is tricked into opening the malicious spreadsheet.

Heuristics 1

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

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