Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9683a53c11fd8af…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 859c1f841c6f51797d30b3c2b929f95f SHA-1: ab3be17c86982234f3fc90e9616efa8aae4a8071 SHA-256: a9683a53c11fd8af9e20235e5b43bc2694b9d87808c54499e3b7d6434a9840fa
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its role as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves delivering a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the infection chain. No further details on the execution or specific IOCs were extracted from this sample.

Heuristics 1

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