Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ba9d56232d290ae…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 00c8ecb335b291af997d2c628d9a6ecd SHA-1: 39ac2422e8082cc560cf179ca3689f5a8bf8af27 SHA-256: 9ba9d56232d290ae77376d0cc1cd162634ed6a0899949ee8571a76675fa0e6d1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting a Qbot variant. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to enable macros, leading to the execution of a dropper. This dropper is expected to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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