Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2e7d424812fb033…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1003fc6e34880c7e1640b8e2be606af3 SHA-1: 619be243ff90e585d2ee7a0d8375b8484c350f71 SHA-256: d2e7d424812fb033bb50d0383be30e05aea900108a603371f25602d3053d5b4c
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 drop further malicious content. The detection name implies a macro-enabled Excel document used for initial infection. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, tricking the user into enabling macros to initiate the download and execution of a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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