Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b852424da140c85f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2a610ebab2b96661b723263e77fda5ba SHA-1: e15a9f7a5ccea929f497785091a49b1de2808c22 SHA-256: b852424da140c85f6a74f6faa2f0259ba10bcc4fba585f54ffcd26aac65a10b2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then execute the malicious payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, leading to user execution of the dropped malware.

Heuristics 1

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