Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecdbe624356d7c51…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 724dc2b60d28f6633a7b58a0767fc45e SHA-1: e62b98c7cab0d4260ecad3a14c577ef9fe30b56d SHA-256: ecdbe624356d7c51b32880466105226a10902ed0e5e0317761becb88cc0533bc
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening the malicious spreadsheet, which then executes a payload. Further analysis of scripts or embedded objects would be required to detail the exact execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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