Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acb8ed29f2415403…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 20b3cbf703a149b2c0e0872d0c717010 SHA-1: da26a3ee4f5ee1057c86df92e1e636e9eaa8dcbd SHA-256: acb8ed29f2415403ba5e0eec34d00deddffd2e2d86b7d97575699faf09ddf279
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious Code

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot variant. This type of file typically functions as a dropper, leveraging macro execution within the spreadsheet to download and run a secondary malicious payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, where the user is tricked into opening the malicious attachment.

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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