Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ac06587ad2b3f04…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 42db8bc16786c501af7460f51c9a1dfd SHA-1: 2e72494d2af627d1cfece333058759618129969f SHA-256: 7ac06587ad2b3f04c2847a13f1084a440ed1bfd14d0f2b01bd3543b50aa01c8b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The ClamAV heuristic identifies this file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop additional malware. The file is an Excel spreadsheet, a common delivery mechanism for macro-based malware. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros, which would then likely initiate the download of a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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