Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e802fa40b769c624…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1c10ce8c98c16aee57bb2d9ae13af4a4 SHA-1: c3458f290b2034b0124b82a207370d09177b6ffa SHA-256: e802fa40b769c6245660c445008510cbfd581739cb4d596d7262e1ac91f35a78
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. Such files typically rely on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. 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