Malicious Office (OOXML) / .XLSX — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faa17222b5d52ec0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f58a7e507ebb3400c50b4734fa44aff1 SHA-1: 0b3a4797979066f40fc2431743b2d84844e4d352 SHA-256: faa17222b5d52ec03a2f999dfabec4307a6b4072cd85450febde93017ba780e9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious Excel document by ClamAV with a critical heuristic firing. The detection name 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0' strongly suggests its purpose is to act as a dropper for other malware, likely Qbot. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the dropper nature is evident from the heuristic.

Heuristics 1

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