Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e65753493efc8e2a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cdd4b1e918f4d86fbaef22a3e44d7262 SHA-1: 266d5679f870ff4ddc5631732f4cd42ed25b7110 SHA-256: e65753493efc8e2aba931268b98430bd03319a3d74b000fbdcbe44f2f5a80d1d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant. The heuristic indicates it functions as a dropper, likely utilizing embedded macros to download and execute a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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