Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b618cfa06ac039ce…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e73f1f32151cf4985b0d74a6a5f4c8df SHA-1: 2550a85137e17e9512fb8d03409b4d81f994d343 SHA-256: b618cfa06ac039ce84b6c16aed4f96d4aba2cec2e6526b8541a036c13a9f7c29
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics indicates the likely attack vector involves social engineering to enable macros, which would then execute the malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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