Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5148478abb824248…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a8e18d3b2ad3cd9a8262d95c66e27b2d SHA-1: 6e6e03c66988462dc18fe5d10040e06505b7c44a SHA-256: 5148478abb82424895068bc24ad3cb19ea412f022dea057bb59ec8f17e833394
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution or exploits to achieve this. 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