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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af1e7534cce794b7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3b7a275549d2fb6a2c8a430a301c1561 SHA-1: f385c400f74d3688c6b8236d244ea699da984336 SHA-256: af1e7534cce794b7e865fcdebf14d95f8c0574d6ecb02af208af678775100408
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to convince the user to enable macros. Once enabled, the macro would execute, likely downloading and running a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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