Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a47bcdeeafc795a7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2bae246acc0a381d6b0b408824c2535b SHA-1: b4fdf1ad0827475800b93ae43efd16bc14d0b58a SHA-256: a47bcdeeafc795a733963b588e228e5288314872468123c0dacc26db2987b5d8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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 download and execute a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator of compromise. The attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes the embedded malware.

Heuristics 1

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