Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d34f6f365334fe52…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 829475a412d241eb47bb17dd2eb49b20 SHA-1: 8f52d789a6dff0a9969939e5db0323b72622b929 SHA-256: d34f6f365334fe52112066588376691f5f661fefe2cf56e3a1cf4c5830fec53b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user to open the malicious spreadsheet, which then likely executes a payload to download and run further malicious components. 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