Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 901a2e0f1d129739…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d8ac5e98210ee9215277eba4863dd47a SHA-1: 3e631fe5fa16858aa50b34376b742a6cf368ab02 SHA-256: 901a2e0f1d12973995119b0bf4cfe120cf8f31d219143a7bc6b4db86233ceeff
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
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 drop a secondary payload. The detection name implies a macro-enabled Excel document used for initial infection. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to execute the malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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