Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9478d17ad30270c6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 02b9d7853b3ee14185dd0a80e8983d50 SHA-1: 25c71d727cb27103e7d92e109b3ae538b37d400c SHA-256: 9478d17ad30270c6b3b52ad42c90feda9bf1277c29ebe90dfb80f1840d1e0281
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes the embedded malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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