Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a763aee9bb0575a4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: dcbbe5379e26e76a8dce2520af939165 SHA-1: 31a2722060680cec65b8bcb6c88ee4796d342124 SHA-256: a763aee9bb0575a43f699eb299974fbc819c992de2b4d2c52ac73417861d203d
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 document typically relies on social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then execute malicious code. The primary function is to download and run a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's known behavior.

Heuristics 1

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