Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7264a0be0ccb544…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7e5ac1730b8b3ec09bf4b830cf36de20 SHA-1: e3c0af3268685d5b07a107cd8bf9a67eb2e59931 SHA-256: a7264a0be0ccb5449f259e71c026f87540041919f9de46028e4d0be7a3b23050
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves delivering a malicious payload via a spearphishing attachment, which is then executed by the macro-enabled Excel file. Further analysis of the macro code would be required to detail the specific execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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