Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddd7970dde88f2b9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4ed1c5371ec04af65d92894fae351b44 SHA-1: c51522ae9b4dc132a9983a998b20a001ad91738a SHA-256: ddd7970dde88f2b96c9f7de2e79ef72e373b394b22279ed0974d303a9181ecfa
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', a known Qbot variant. This heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to act as a dropper for malicious payloads. The file type and detection name indicate a macro-enabled Excel document used for initial infection, likely employing social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros.

Heuristics 1

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