Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ace79f6f3eb2711…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9efedf99bcad27ef5353aa45e2355186 SHA-1: 01f1a5662dd03ee3f11a3d3c538fe3335ae2d7d9 SHA-256: 1ace79f6f3eb2711e5d043c5980ccf9bc6d4b8223c4c0f9ab5b8d8ce351304cb
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 is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests the initial infection vector involves executing embedded VBA code, which is a common technique for Qbot to download and execute further malicious components.

Heuristics 1

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