Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90644762d1cb5b2b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1b5714f746aaca18e6fa5ea104fdb81f SHA-1: 14b4071216764a9caef922979d32c89aff932757 SHA-256: 90644762d1cb5b2b37e3a481a4a43d4189c80dcca85ed701c9721603b1c18b59
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 functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves delivering a malicious payload via a macro-enabled Excel document, likely through spearphishing. The heuristic firing suggests the document's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 1

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