Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fdcee00f03f166a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 626e0a5a61840057a22aff67d1e560aa SHA-1: b335b1ab8af858404fde68023e7c5d717ce1c913 SHA-256: 9fdcee00f03f166a3a64922203616b47ace27bc2337b8aa3a0f25288a892dc78
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, leading the user to open the malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is provided as a key indicator.

Heuristics 1

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