Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a70dd6ee27d3b276…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f745e489801cfc2ddbaed6af6d747724 SHA-1: c75786df4d942b573acc26cfca4159922358bd6c SHA-256: a70dd6ee27d3b27690dd4f62c3ab97248af4bf010d50f1ca3e730bcc1a856efa
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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 dropper. This type of file typically uses macros to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of this specific ClamAV signature is sufficient evidence to attribute it to the Qbot family and infer its dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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