Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca4e8c96d965359a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e02b8a5158520d7587ee0ad240c22f64 SHA-1: 287b98496aa68b1121a70ccaded2fc80c2704890 SHA-256: ca4e8c96d965359a1b5ba799c9907d2e50fdee43541efb1d83cdaa11f2e6928e
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 indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, a common tactic for Qbot. The SHA256 hash is provided 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