Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2016e143988c052…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f7aed91b43cc63a87e3275b23a087178 SHA-1: 63adf89b34d1aaf7d454f3c8b886ea33ea2a4f46 SHA-256: c2016e143988c052381544e1948a7bcf3f4a10a11f5d84a24c6640f73c6a3c93
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to drop additional malware. The Excel format suggests a macro-based delivery mechanism, likely employing social engineering to trick the user into enabling content, which would then execute 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