Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6e228ac45481687…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 17d940ed204059f4648628c213811e3b SHA-1: 6e08d51f132bd536bc777ffc3a94cee832b4f6a7 SHA-256: d6e228ac454816878f9291c83a55d0b39343af13101b46633fd5e769f9e6ab6b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to deliver a payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the execution of further malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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