Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc97b9e95907f2d4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cebbccaaf9aeb43df8f15e6cbe83825f SHA-1: c42d005db779ae969288a4b8c3b715b44de33078 SHA-256: cc97b9e95907f2d4eaf2756e8a30cf8a9d7b5b3d05eb2a6870430a0b00c71a81
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', a known Qbot variant. This indicates the Excel document likely contains malicious macros or embedded objects intended to download and execute the Qbot malware. The primary attack vector is spearphishing, leveraging the document as an attachment to lure the user into opening it and triggering the malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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