Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a560bf0763f70ab5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e20c73e438bcb2ebc46f2d3e34933dc0 SHA-1: 72889953b497f93e510ec3c3d50cb352da081a1d SHA-256: a560bf0763f70ab5bbb55de2f1a31c11b5a248bda90e9ca16125ff0791428ded
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', a known Qbot variant. This heuristic strongly suggests the Excel file's purpose is to act as a dropper for a malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution to achieve this. The file's metadata indicates it's an older Excel document, potentially used for initial access.

Heuristics 1

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