Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae181a4cf16075a2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5106a25e8b100194e5cf35318f03977c SHA-1: 1762d2db97fc3955510d814cc35c917d6ff78b66 SHA-256: ae181a4cf16075a223f83eef5dc049ef2d12f44afd66fbeeef35d20cafb27cd8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a Qbot dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes a macro to download and run the Qbot malware. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

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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