Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dc4fbcfc4b689b7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 134e2f6918a6cd26f47eef6a5dda6ccd SHA-1: 6c9fa0fc62001d3123434b15ff393daf0bc3ce50 SHA-256: 1dc4fbcfc4b689b753c928bdf275ac4822b4be5ad7d1dbb348e3c17993c65615
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 suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a malicious payload. The detection name implies it's a dropper, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel file to achieve its objective. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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