Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79bbabc8e027e33b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: af0a2756526a2fb117882720916664eb SHA-1: 5841281fc7033f4fde908f9fdaa32dd436a45050 SHA-256: 79bbabc8e027e33b6419e4c0f84b6ee8f44ce677b0e33004af320f2c1a5aa083
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, which is characteristic of Qbot's initial infection vector. 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