Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebc3a6a69d6d9ac8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f279f0958b2822b10eaa769111ea0675 SHA-1: 75f7f520aaa86ace181caa6c07e20faf08759bdf SHA-256: ebc3a6a69d6d9ac80f75dc70eda11695233fbf11e3c69c2ee08d8ee6a806eb5f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
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. As an Excel macro-enabled document, it likely uses embedded VBA to download and execute a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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