Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dca8f686c149e8bb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ac92982a7f70945ea212f0f9802fe03a SHA-1: 692fe75c251ca5b496a8f187225201969a6b03a4 SHA-256: dca8f686c149e8bbc55c801e77c54f2296970745a71cdb47b308dae9e1ef45de
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant. As a dropper, its primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The SHA256 hash of the file itself is the primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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