Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0eba79508767592…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9c9f8dbdd9dcb58d97d767f23b5a4bb2 SHA-1: a511b1e0118efd957387af3ec78c0b1d0249f725 SHA-256: a0eba795087675920b7fb576963fcedcf4a24eea6d918c64642c77775c1a39b3
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 identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution or exploits to download and run a secondary malicious payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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