Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecae502021575b95…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cf4914639b8a31ea93730c078ab9e05e SHA-1: ddae37535bc3d473278f42ae4bc6f00582d7aa21 SHA-256: ecae502021575b9528bd5290c20d35015b44fa09f8633f71bfe007fdb6e5447b
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 indicating it is a Qbot dropper. Such files are typically used to lure users into enabling macros, which then download and execute the main Qbot malware. No further IOCs were extracted from this sample.

Heuristics 1

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