Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eefe218afc74833…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5c4fb5652b6702f241ddc1182004fac3 SHA-1: c27cddbcbe658fe05c36aa72739dad869ba776bd SHA-256: 4eefe218afc748337ab58ba2ec451ccaa264fc8bd39a1bf6d75b4625c1014cea
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting Qbot family involvement. The detection name implies a dropper functionality, likely intended to download and execute a secondary payload upon macro enablement. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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