Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96c248c541547fde…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b1c5ef57d7935c4fa6dc4b59431657e6 SHA-1: a01df0866978d43ac1f14ee70151f1f40a78b377 SHA-256: 96c248c541547fde11aa9e22aab8bee59d3faa411f3b6fac618bc811d8912a63
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's a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests the initial infection vector involves executing embedded VBA code. This code likely facilitates the download and execution of the main Qbot component.

Heuristics 1

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