Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dedc2db2c9dc6c16…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c91bc5598d583cf9b3094f1264115d4e SHA-1: cf202d4f7e690b87e85e7dc1c9bfe76f5793fa94 SHA-256: dedc2db2c9dc6c164d0a02c47faa51e4b40ea1ceb63c68d9e441092c6388e834
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function of such documents is to trick users into enabling macros or exploiting vulnerabilities to download and execute a malicious payload. Given the detection name, the likely attack pattern involves social engineering to lure the user into executing the dropped malware.

Heuristics 1

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

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