Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f18eb51e826288f5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b112f2d585c502f94159dbd8746ded9b SHA-1: 23181facca121200698d37479263377831ae5859 SHA-256: f18eb51e826288f5654a89e7c6c51cf03d61baa6abce0c24ab4b39ec091e48a8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious 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