Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b779c5c46758849c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 04fc655295841ff1b78e2d30919dcde4 SHA-1: f7a4881e47691844d76ae1985c123390a2f62c2c SHA-256: b779c5c46758849cd90ca6bc5b7f01787703c37c2f0f5975881d651ed87320a5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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 Qbot family involvement. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to enable macros, leading to the execution of a dropper functionality. This dropper is expected to download and execute 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