Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c492974793eaf654…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 872f0ac2a3d3d7167e607ca1f105defd SHA-1: 811e61a3da476b768b22c70543a0e2dca66bda8a SHA-256: c492974793eaf6545ffe277abf5bc97370d616c4a203cf760e75b9d37fc538b2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The Office (OOXML) file type suggests it was delivered as an attachment, likely via spearphishing. 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