Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7eb5fea2179ba9ce…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bd24dd18e4e1949aeb18a788a784b26c SHA-1: 43f6537ca00033a266b21001b4762b769481516f SHA-256: 7eb5fea2179ba9cee1297e8f712abd9abac4a32018e37a0639ebca7e816fe258
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's a Qbot dropper. As an Excel macro-enabled document, it likely uses VBA to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior. The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash.

Heuristics 1

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