Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae0365b0fa1714eb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4c1a6db0aca4f9c7ed6d1ed0ebd805dd SHA-1: be88e4314440041cbb3c1c45bb6bffe61cd6a3fe SHA-256: ae0365b0fa1714ebee6b7bbf9a5654015f99d34c626306220d69e3ed72916883
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. As an Excel document, it likely employs social engineering tactics to entice the user into enabling macros, which then execute the malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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