Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e849c208e9877b31…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3d153c09167ac1b60654f43a8ec9a60d SHA-1: bda74be84b1a3da212cc86974c3dfffe5904b521 SHA-256: e849c208e9877b31c042af25fb63689819f1fb6e541983b40652b0428d4a8409
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to initiate a download and execution chain. 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