Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4042b9a016cab779…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2fa0604e825b665b2cf096b26a3e6a4c SHA-1: 97a96c81015f44178bfb248666f59b11bbae0b22 SHA-256: 4042b9a016cab77908b0b6b88f98f0e109c6bbebec86362bc57776521485f10d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating a Qbot family infection. As an Excel document, it likely employs macro execution to download and run a secondary payload, a common Qbot delivery technique. The SHA256 hash is provided as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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