Malicious Office (OOXML) / .XLSX — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f4529c2248ea587…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a0a045af2e7b76fe076e170e9385f8af SHA-1: 5ec5c80506538fbed15faaa02dfbc1f1df4ff75e SHA-256: 9f4529c2248ea58735a9c6022506169ae21f2d6773e61d7dad6395252a726f0c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel spreadsheet. The ClamAV heuristic firing, 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggests this file is a dropper. It is likely designed to trick the user into enabling macros to download and execute a secondary stage payload, characteristic of Qbot malware distribution.

Heuristics 1

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