Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f695b4852278b734…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6b3d10f03f77161119f264f7d9fb399f SHA-1: 64351a76986b84fef470bed9a0c1a59f6031569a SHA-256: f695b4852278b7346ef427b8b04879b229aab25ee2c49ba15eaa33d0ed26814d
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, a known Qbot variant. This indicates the file is a macro-enabled document intended to download and execute a secondary payload, characteristic of Qbot's initial infection vector. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to initiate the malicious download.

Heuristics 1

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