Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d73f5849e3ce0e28…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cec77e729fafdf31f35652586984191d SHA-1: a1ae9e04817523f573536bbcc611e3401626b68a SHA-256: d73f5849e3ce0e280d623a2748dec4e052cb750432e9600885aefc703b5bc192
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

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. While no specific VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic firing suggests the Excel file contains malicious code intended to download and execute a secondary payload. 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