Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6a89b25d84bf209…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 828ddac969c9c481c41b1733ddb64539 SHA-1: 1a3038500f3f251db4962408804d0f0fd90196c8 SHA-256: a6a89b25d84bf20957e40bd9db2dabaa2ebec897f9e56e8dcbbe7ffdc1c8cb74
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', a known Qbot variant. This indicates the Excel file's primary purpose is to act as a dropper for a malicious payload. The detection suggests it leverages macro execution or other embedded exploits to achieve this.

Heuristics 1

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