Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef489a9fd3a9cde4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 96ee3dc35d391e6b0f912b88b9164798 SHA-1: 7d577a0dd184b38475fcc6d69c6c890c5e92fa44 SHA-256: ef489a9fd3a9cde43d419729ecf80147eee16f75fa0a5060f3ecbc14156e6b70
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot (also known as Qakbot) dropper. As an Excel file, it likely uses macros or other embedded content to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash.

Heuristics 1

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