Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b16d4f5d75366843…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d97fa545ac84a55e9ae17f383e57ec0c SHA-1: ec41c49b95a2905d36d55ddf71e3b42e54cfa311 SHA-256: b16d4f5d75366843652c71c616676f93530232f41d2303cb7daf60518e06b23d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically uses macros to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of this specific ClamAV signature is sufficient evidence to attribute it to the Qbot family and infer its dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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