Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de485453060b5445…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9e3399d64b36fb49e75481b7fb8f36e9 SHA-1: af29a09197129a635242bffd875a798bcb1fb2ce SHA-256: de485453060b5445b96590037b1dbb307c25d26d10dadc3f7f9de0ef4a98d3a9
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 indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. As an Excel file, it likely relies on macro execution or a similar mechanism to initiate the attack chain, leading to the execution of the dropped malware. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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