Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7223a75cd367df9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 693eb206c0fba07a48d4c8e8126713e3 SHA-1: d9533896430569b4d599a38b92b59cd0217d2ebf SHA-256: a7223a75cd367df991a02c468c467746f353ff588d563cfce35ff79fe2b5c0ac
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it's a Qbot variant. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to enable macros, which would then facilitate the download and execution of a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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