Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b913827ade4e0dda…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7a23d31db95ca3d9ac143ac13bad4154 SHA-1: 51f906eaaa95354dc68037b2fee68f9ec1fb0830 SHA-256: b913827ade4e0ddab41e29a5aa348c458782768a60ae220f9f20fd542175d34f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it acts as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious attachment, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the payload execution. Further analysis of embedded scripts would be needed to detail the exact execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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