Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c281579d63c187b6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 16b3383a49d6de84d3cef55c674f09cd SHA-1: 4a37fa7b6d51d984e8863704bfe51600619dc1ce SHA-256: c281579d63c187b69d9a7c0f97e413400bb602f826a20acae1f97462af77efef
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash, which can be used to identify other instances of this malicious document.

Heuristics 1

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