Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0a1e75629f81623…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2ad7dfc92ab54b200b96984f0b417695 SHA-1: 570744fa67e94819fbed8c3d9deaed559c84a8a6 SHA-256: a0a1e75629f8162397be5c983be34192bc5aaf7d517ebb5da954a7186bc600db
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family dropper. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then execute the malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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