Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc50427c9e812445…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 214f15848f0ac09c62d75bff93672e50 SHA-1: c6694662d692288e208b93e3299a996c4e636bde SHA-256: bc50427c9e8124457920593d4aafeb32fc95a36abc72ab497f771fa6088139f1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel file, it likely uses macro execution or exploits to download and run a secondary malicious payload. The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash.

Heuristics 1

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