Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d775ab72fa881dbe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300 First seen: 2020-12-25
MD5: 1d4e4880d8f259eafdc13d7cd3db5564 SHA-1: 5b5fd85676f01764825dd83544f1c8c68e03756c SHA-256: d775ab72fa881dbe748035c18f1fec1d453eb371bf4667916641025d48b2e290
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it belongs to the Qbot family and functions as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves delivering a malicious payload via a spearphishing attachment, which is then executed by the user.

Heuristics 1

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