Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc2ea502e19ed594…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bd18de73599af65fd016e08b853361d3 SHA-1: 7f8635a71f69085a81e2a058745a34fb1b1d45b1 SHA-256: cc2ea502e19ed5948dea95527ebb3009e3ae8518e4c8ca844a8edf93e19ad3e8
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 suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function of such documents is to lure the user into enabling macros, which then execute to download and run a secondary malicious payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator of compromise.

Heuristics 1

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