Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a1b1fb4553c46a3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 77f750a7ada37746c4932046964e21ba SHA-1: 6ead70705158fbf17306e6758183c8eecd609c17 SHA-256: 9a1b1fb4553c46a31e0cc8fcc3d88c56e33815a5328ce8a3f3c053e54b955e7e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The ClamAV heuristic identifies this file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The file is an Excel macro-enabled document, a common delivery mechanism for Qbot. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to enable macros, which then execute the malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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