Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43167452e6ce8507…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2a4a1ba86bdfcc20ceb8331b9b202024 SHA-1: 95572d8b1ed3ee36b34365f0f76eb766c5ef4f4a SHA-256: 43167452e6ce8507e5cb40175edeabe7545bd720821f2f671cc7b482de246ed2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash, which can be used for detection and threat hunting. The attack pattern involves delivering Qbot malware via a malicious Excel attachment.

Heuristics 1

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