Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43af88aa9a658610…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b331aade421da047476fd8e0db77b1a0 SHA-1: cc29d4c50709858ddf9a1299c3f21cf73eaa5ba4 SHA-256: 43af88aa9a65861048460ab2a87ba8751eb06363b55c4ac899543aea49c0f26d
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 heuristic firing suggests the document's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, consistent with Qbot's known behavior.

Heuristics 1

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