Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 998176a5ffa25314…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0e5ea3acc7bfa5a4e9e2bcba3f35d2c4 SHA-1: caafe13e8c347b5a8aea8c46db90f44aaf95d8c3 SHA-256: 998176a5ffa2531478882129534dab698f6148e92d0e7d09f0e35ed3ddbf5800
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its use as a dropper for Qbot malware. The detection suggests the file is designed to execute malicious code, likely through macros, to download and install further stages of the Qbot infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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