Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40519980d4ee3495…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3ff3d324c76ad0c3064429d3d686b48f SHA-1: bd8ccbcaf1cb2c65de57c14956ae1e46458bac16 SHA-256: 40519980d4ee3495b405848fd883d0a3824675a41c76321f40321e910c1e7347
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 malicious payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests the initial execution vector involves enabling macros within the Excel file to trigger the download and execution of the secondary stage.

Heuristics 1

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