Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c43aca956113d8f7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fc501d49d730e3362a273523e21e66e4 SHA-1: 424620dbdaa46bccd128063ac68f92e3c2b9f259 SHA-256: c43aca956113d8f70583b5f84131e6488d3290dbfbe57fd13a5c1017218cc515
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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's a Qbot dropper. As an Excel macro-enabled document, it likely uses VBA to download and execute a secondary 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