Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a63e7eb8ed3fcfa4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bcfa735491fb863be2c54860d47db66b SHA-1: 68f306ea1cd8c43286dd233becf161a737743685 SHA-256: a63e7eb8ed3fcfa45b9808e1d62510f118cea0ee9c964e3bbf109c014a7a4fb9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. While no specific VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic indicates the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel document.

Heuristics 1

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