Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8d6f374b95f9d23…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7653f6a318ba8c78e7dbc810a1c53254 SHA-1: 3d388599286bf6101dbcd2320d7cb608d2e4d776 SHA-256: b8d6f374b95f9d23eaccf39bb65a42519189af107a35b339bda6bc64b3a6b812
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this XLSX file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, leveraging macro execution to achieve this. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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