Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 909c2b878ccb0755…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 67bb11ae52a079ab96ff1427969bfca4 SHA-1: f51fe8b88754d3457f72e27b9ae644f180e50c59 SHA-256: 909c2b878ccb0755239bbcb19599d58524ea108beb70cdf4040cd0f18a0a5957
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious Script

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to drop a malicious payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality within an Excel document. This points to a phishing attack where the user is tricked into opening the malicious Excel file, leading to the execution of the Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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