Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a79549d8368f507…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a871f9d146efea8384a9f9c654a4bbd1 SHA-1: ef87eae61eb248d2acf1ca2e5fe5a029a4fbc25e SHA-256: 4a79549d8368f5078af105d64b87e444a0ba072fd4f872bc639f980ca982f429
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macros or embedded objects to initiate the malicious payload execution. 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