Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e4e7a7468d311b1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b43c5cc2c888d88fd448f6c086307a21 SHA-1: 2b2d21dbe7e66889ebbb9469cee435089611d50f SHA-256: 9e4e7a7468d311b10e034070c1177da4776a45edf33f7d117a8f57e7df895762
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 an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. Such files typically rely on macro execution to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of the SHA256 hash further aids in identifying this specific malicious artifact.

Heuristics 1

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