Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a125981b1477361b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0d9b17899f28776140ceb1a7a3074d20 SHA-1: dbcd27a70ab621763242bab87c0080686de316fa SHA-256: a125981b1477361b69f70d02f9c2ea7ff87707c24ab7a7e48ef5a6cab5632a9b
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 Qbot malware. The primary function appears to be acting as a dropper for a malicious payload. The file's metadata and heuristic detection point towards a malicious dropper designed to initiate further infection stages.

Heuristics 1

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