Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 265a4fedfccb3050…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3a7e053966bd425f047509281976da51 SHA-1: af5a38c0c34a57e884e466450e64f7ad09b68773 SHA-256: 265a4fedfccb3050e1f44241e4ff14db8d53433aeb0931fae9994028ba03477d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 85%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant. Such documents typically employ macros to download and execute a secondary payload, aligning with the T1566.002 (Spearphishing Attachment) and T1059.005 (Visual Basic) MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

Heuristics 1

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