Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a27e8ba2fd0ef43…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2456df3f9ca2ef1a6f88d63f471c3f95 SHA-1: b971430e264740196ef47cb3e43fe6f25c31538a SHA-256: 5a27e8ba2fd0ef43c64206b778d6f8c6f25e3ac0efa12fb78046ccb0289b7c87
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', a known Qbot variant. This heuristic strongly suggests the file's purpose is to act as a dropper for Qbot malware. The primary attack pattern involves delivering this malicious file, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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