Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef537062362f0ce4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 341202e4527544db48df26b672cbf2c3 SHA-1: 33bd85ae7d37b6df0e224a89c3ca7c2686be0e72 SHA-256: ef537062362f0ce43da63b80751278f550f4b3644df703cf35deeb62e6333326
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function is likely to download and execute a secondary stage payload, a common tactic for Qbot. The SHA256 hash is included 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