Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c90945bf6b7b0f77…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c8a5ee4968b5295040ee364dbc12c042 SHA-1: faa206fb8948e8a7791cbc149b850595b230552d SHA-256: c90945bf6b7b0f77610745e02f911818cf6f95d4365b50ba07a7c1f5205f1c4b
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 suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The primary function is to act as a dropper, leveraging social engineering within the Excel document to trick the user into executing the malicious content. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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