Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e7fea0543510a72…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: da4cbca999adc7b44d1249c59b1f2cce SHA-1: b4b000ef83b53731c771e3085371941f94c89612 SHA-256: 4e7fea0543510a72666f1008b8e0cda1c23d03122dac53169ccfd32d5e02195a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant used for dropping secondary payloads. The Excel format and the dropper nature indicate a phishing attack vector, likely spearphishing, to trick users into opening the malicious document. The primary function is to download and execute further malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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