Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 272f2ea4a741d1bf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9d7f3076ab4ed719fc71815cb33e2a22 SHA-1: fec3a8980bb15c4d2ab7679f48aa1074a368198b SHA-256: 272f2ea4a741d1bf55653201216c55154fc0a2b8f8317f9a142324886414acc6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros, which are then used to download and execute a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator of compromise.

Heuristics 1

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