Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6989dd2eb54fcc6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c4823b241eefeaffa5a293874fea93e3 SHA-1: 624ab9ae16a0aaee151e2ebc42ded53c714e3a8f SHA-256: e6989dd2eb54fcc6eaf36358e1615f10e3d0f92dc40703e5229be4041dd44c47
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 it's a Qbot dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to open the spreadsheet, which then executes a malicious payload. This payload is likely responsible for downloading and running further stages of the Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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