Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9960896a6f9e92d4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0f07bb7d55d173379977a341511a1181 SHA-1: 61d2db2dfd141d6dda74c3fd1e5bb8711c1ea85b SHA-256: 9960896a6f9e92d4508f0b74f4b654b65a1f9f3e5989041ce3e8e961af8e6c6f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel document, it likely relies on social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which would then execute the malicious payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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