Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9965a39e8fdf17f2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5fe07d69ac61cbc24cff08c22e54ef40 SHA-1: 5a5cb5517b70567685a4bcc1c65c2234f1aee2a9 SHA-256: 9965a39e8fdf17f2156309fc965c98255d2c1e9f9934cd7883082f20685dfb00
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macros or embedded objects to initiate the malicious payload execution. The primary function is to download and execute a second-stage Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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