Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e259fa8c9c26d52a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4deb789ca912b5b796264504be06b0d2 SHA-1: a146e6750f47aefc1d74a33c4b4fe748bddf1bf6 SHA-256: e259fa8c9c26d52ada095ff7920722e6be0356aae65a4ea9f3fd8b84f5e7a86d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a malicious payload. The file's nature as an Excel document points towards a phishing or social engineering attack vector, likely spearphishing, to trick users into opening it and enabling macros. The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash.

Heuristics 1

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