Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad367a0d997724ac…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a7e96f1dcc28c340631ed9ea4ba784e7 SHA-1: 73e2d1e0d87f652709c372d9e1dcfea42e956ab6 SHA-256: ad367a0d997724ac45eb7e40c0f590849ba4088319228f6bd279dc5693746b0d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macros or other embedded content to initiate the malicious payload. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary stage, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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