Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78a6798486cc699d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 377bafd95f44db24ffbfbb80aa398ec5 SHA-1: 86e652deac68c8e70a93442d7bde6b274892c132 SHA-256: 78a6798486cc699dfa70d965ffb59bfd450e2ac822b3e85a64481d37912e032f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1566 Phishing T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, a common tactic for Qbot. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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