Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f60fa88f9c881f52…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 299ec83174f2fb116ddfd05d1317dfff SHA-1: ff9a1d70fe2e089af2025cab8c3286d95ad90d60 SHA-256: f60fa88f9c881f52f14a6927bd66040feb680de5c13fa3f4261aaf0225563def
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a malicious payload. The primary function appears to be initial infection via a malicious Office document, likely relying on user interaction to trigger the execution of the secondary stage.

Heuristics 1

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