Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdbdaf4628a3cd9c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 59b8bcc11c83ae8ffe8e7ead19eb2555 SHA-1: 6409d1d7c2830b3f564f783bca44cb80569c5197 SHA-256: cdbdaf4628a3cd9c7408786cb6f57b11fed74e72b87885657634e561f830a400
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 Qbot malware. The primary attack pattern involves a user opening a malicious attachment, leading to the execution of a dropper payload. This dropper is responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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