Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1a5ca7528755a85…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2558758983948711a6d23042ccfd0bd4 SHA-1: ac6d272cd20a9ac98b84518df0b20737320798e1 SHA-256: e1a5ca7528755a859e7eb47998fde30fe608972cda7b8cfd00e2ff3d4e02ac57
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function of such files is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, leveraging user interaction with the Excel document. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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