Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0af98ec34cc1fbd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 95534de3e6d8631841b4fb3d1885ba2b SHA-1: f10880db8eea3e125891b94b975197be3a6e7727 SHA-256: c0af98ec34cc1fbd56717fe6984794974814b94183b8e8939b6b377616e9730c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1204 User Execution T1566 Phishing

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family dropper. The primary attack vector involves tricking the user into enabling macros, which are then used to download and execute a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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