Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b281face848e9bbe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a34f3b2437801896d4f4dbe54f1fcf15 SHA-1: 5232fc8878a863b43270e9967dcb16ea2d664b99 SHA-256: b281face848e9bbe53533e963b52e7368f56a5704ed1beb130d5edd88d838bf3
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The Excel format and the detection name indicate a likely phishing or social engineering lure to trick users into opening the document and enabling macros, which would then initiate the download and execution of 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

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