Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd71530d45a895aa…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 339a8547f283060a1525f0708bda4293 SHA-1: 9b520a33fbe7bb75fcf6132284356ee883d194f8 SHA-256: bd71530d45a895aa343ccba48b2f2187084bba9efa2a2d974a093230b1a6254e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family infection. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening the malicious spreadsheet, which then likely exploits a vulnerability or uses macro execution to download and run a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is provided as a key indicator.

Heuristics 1

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