Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a18a82d4345c1e66…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 683d078ff9f3a427cc5598bfc45da06a SHA-1: 5a80ff7220416bb1eac3ccaafbc65be7606d14c9 SHA-256: a18a82d4345c1e66c97460ee41e446df6bbc5eb6e5444c136f72ab9260ccf02b
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 dropper. Such documents typically leverage macro execution to download and run a secondary payload, which is characteristic of Qbot's distribution methods. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, tricking users into opening the malicious Excel file and enabling macros.

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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