Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7f27f78749f8974…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5c78b1b526943a09eebff38fd6a71eeb SHA-1: 00d374036d540097261018b5be5aab164a292ed4 SHA-256: d7f27f78749f8974c2f4189f39177847a9c631225a8f28749c6a433e289f52e0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves delivering a malicious payload via a macro-enabled Excel document, which is a common tactic for Qbot. The heuristic firing suggests the file's purpose is to download and execute a secondary stage.

Heuristics 1

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