Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a63542197d327c9c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fda9c0b01fe310dae45076cb456fa794 SHA-1: 342c0c9bc37e9a21c3cf9acddc45d1c813b5be55 SHA-256: a63542197d327c9ce2da06f6062f066d216d53c0325285e9ed29adfbaab6e338
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to deliver a payload. As an Excel file, it likely uses macro execution or exploits to achieve this. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary stage, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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