Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b042181e5e10287f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 990903748a9baebe361f9bed8c0f9912 SHA-1: c547215fa2ef97e3156c57fe65df0beacf1b4179 SHA-256: b042181e5e10287fcf49ca7bd40e4944e90a1a62488f07778b9010d2e175b0fe
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1204 User Execution

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting a Qbot family infection. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros. Once enabled, the macro would execute, initiating the download of a secondary payload, characteristic of Qbot's dropper functionality.

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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