Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbb94a6dbc40bf21…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fdbe0db8213c897da97bf3deaeb2e6a9 SHA-1: 342fbfdd653aeba59e45d23eb3367f5af9728e94 SHA-256: bbb94a6dbc40bf21fbfd656a6c9bce2692ca6ca8c31a1f4571226ca692117723
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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 suggesting it belongs to the Qbot family and functions as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. 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