Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6c9ba7b4ca16616…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 99192881214736616caf84edaa849e6d SHA-1: d83425ffd47cf9f537cb2e905fb18a2457774e9c SHA-256: f6c9ba7b4ca166163e7fb59c3e414f5a6c2c2ec6bbf22c7d4ccc939f4cbaf0a4
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a Qbot dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes embedded malicious code to download and run the Qbot malware. This is a common technique for Qbot distribution.

Heuristics 1

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