Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89c685371ea7b24a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: de77337a9ffed0462df813eb96e11229 SHA-1: c16bccc5258d102bdd43747fc68d9508ed0ebf40 SHA-256: 89c685371ea7b24ab593c0ba18b4fc76c913c8c2c2d7a381124cafbade3a27b8
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, typical of Qbot's initial infection vector. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator of compromise.

Heuristics 1

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