Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a72022b2ccef9d95…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: aaf5a3efddced16868e7ca1fd5dcc634 SHA-1: c3978149cf83b34bc6cb685bd570a55d424a103f SHA-256: a72022b2ccef9d95a8243120f98dbc2190845a9b5683e7ae34a3ea8e349398ec
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 variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution or exploits to download and run a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator of compromise.

Heuristics 1

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