Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca39a0c551973f9a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3e96681107db37817f178ac1280115d7 SHA-1: f0cbe45d1a95eeed045bfd1025dc6b0ce28177f4 SHA-256: ca39a0c551973f9a625689fa1ee99a7b66b3b6f5699e8a62a900211ee043a5d2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
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 act as a dropper. The presence of macro-related heuristics indicates it likely uses VBA to download and execute a secondary payload. 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