Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afe56037d908f9c6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4f53f20b276708c9cc8782347c786aab SHA-1: 717eec24c5bed32550003f69edaa514fc4ade16c SHA-256: afe56037d908f9c6a9f7dbd10bf03b41b5196ff28b8cd84ae671199a2d93e5f9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot to establish a foothold on the victim's system. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator of compromise.

Heuristics 1

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