Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dfc5e4ba56330ef…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5f8213b032530c2b39a8aba585cd96f7 SHA-1: 162d5edfde82c67ef7c58723a79db7fb3b04ef03 SHA-256: 9dfc5e4ba56330efc316e539354f5a5381a915430024b2c1bb561434beb9e17b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves delivering a malicious payload via a macro-enabled Excel file, likely through spearphishing. No specific scripts or document body content were extracted, but the heuristic detection is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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