Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c72b1a5e4e23a598…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 196b3132cef2bb42d0d449e5c559218d SHA-1: 14097c5069fcc03c522795feef499e618bf33140 SHA-256: c72b1a5e4e23a598c71a137b47ada69db562527f3ba7be080056c53c5bb62bc0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, a known Qbot variant. This suggests the document is intended to act as a dropper for the Qbot malware. The primary attack pattern is likely spearphishing attachment, where the user is tricked into opening the malicious Excel file.

Heuristics 1

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