Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee76517098314307…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d60f9358ba3215140da0ff9beaf4f813 SHA-1: bbd8301c049620e191a93bb07968f7b1d66efacf SHA-256: ee765170983143079e2bd9e84e9f3cf020e7030441de387860151df02b422a3d
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 macro execution to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of the SHA256 hash serves as a primary indicator for this specific malicious file.

Heuristics 1

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