Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 896cbc3e2db93ee2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4ebea614cab37f3561d3ba27fc14efc0 SHA-1: f4694fb2dfd57f5027b572a61c74433f1377d9d5 SHA-256: 896cbc3e2db93ee246da8d0a8d5a2757abb1c5059c063e8f542cf6ac71c57099
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 it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to open the malicious spreadsheet, which then executes a payload. Further analysis would be required to determine the exact execution chain and specific IOCs.

Heuristics 1

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