Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edf0ac31ac9cdc14…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bcfecc26ecdb6aa384d263838f289e18 SHA-1: e73876b51e2887e90eebe460f94ba4771903c661 SHA-256: edf0ac31ac9cdc14b6d75f9a158284c4d6e55bc210e9914b8ce5d66067243edb
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The file type and heuristic firing suggest a macro-enabled Excel document used for initial infection. The SHA256 hash is provided as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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