Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96b9ca121e4502cd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7ce93e6449fa940928a6569e6acc683f SHA-1: 14ba4912e9aae3f334bf5f1e2c3fbe579dca8b6d SHA-256: 96b9ca121e4502cd1ae064469febe3f9d321eb3e89574d58cbffc4c924f8dff4
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file was detected 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 luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes embedded macros to download and run a secondary payload. This is a common delivery method for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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