Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcedab5833801ca2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 85fbd4d711ba5b5a669ec11612f0c54a SHA-1: 5b6cd82f153e2083bb463d866a7bceda324da77f SHA-256: dcedab5833801ca2d191aefcef18ba48adb5ed868f28b51b7f254fdcd1236c78
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper, indicating its purpose is to download and execute a malicious payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics strongly suggests the use of VBA to initiate the infection chain. This aligns with Qbot's typical behavior of using malicious documents to deliver its primary payload.

Heuristics 1

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

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