Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 766ea7c4bad14548…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b6543043aec21970f689023b043f79b4 SHA-1: e305997f7920f81fad95833ed66bc7eba9143ec9 SHA-256: 766ea7c4bad145480852c577136bbd0d0c4bc8f93e6995cdc0735d9f23508c66
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then execute the malicious payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment, leading to the execution of a Qbot variant.

Heuristics 1

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