Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79f3b8d85b96cdd2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1cbfcc9f1758b4d3ef26ae89f1359436 SHA-1: 272dd59e42cf3bdda5a51be8281bf7107d856fd2 SHA-256: 79f3b8d85b96cdd2dd7c235f70e1d23d061f76ed2a347626ea591d679aaf1e09
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The XLSX format suggests a macro-enabled document, a common delivery vector for Qbot, which would typically execute malicious code upon enabling macros. The primary function is to download and execute further malware.

Heuristics 1

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