Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f61affa99c65f8de…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d9be631267e154c18ce843de4de0f34a SHA-1: d424c9158e82c2868c73f499925538cb91bafd1a SHA-256: f61affa99c65f8de44c9f7f0dc6f8b1564f79fb6f2aee6bf07fb735a7364c811
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is 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 the user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the payload execution. Further analysis of embedded scripts or macros would be necessary 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