Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a986d5afac9a54ad…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a7ce140ddfc1ffca85bc6405df1198ee SHA-1: 78255574bc29ecb6eae61a308661b4e1052ee892 SHA-256: a986d5afac9a54ad2739ea2fc1aa6b3e3acb006b90af37c0368417b52138fbdc
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant used for dropping secondary payloads. The primary function appears to be the execution of malicious code, likely through macro-based techniques, to download and run further malware. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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