Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd04d06b69026cef…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: eb72d6b1766c293af722bd410605dc88 SHA-1: 245efd10ccb208e7943b03b8e5078434d63d48a7 SHA-256: fd04d06b69026cefa6b1c75bed1b4e88fe2b377c5d5c0fe239fc1732f3a467be
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The nature of droppers is to download and execute a secondary payload, which aligns with the Ingress Tool Transfer (T1105) technique. The file's format as an Excel spreadsheet suggests it was likely delivered via Spearphishing Attachment (T1566.002).

Heuristics 1

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