Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4543cdb243f2e088…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f883b8682882542b72653a5696c5efa3 SHA-1: 4ff2e3794eaad95bca4b861689dc3d49bb526a3f SHA-256: 4543cdb243f2e088bea412f29ba94bdc69c34a594b8eb319f44c8af4e46171a8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious Code

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution or exploits to download and run a secondary payload. The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash.

Heuristics 1

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