Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa0861416f7f2cfa…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a42854ec85916c1191a955f78646e02c SHA-1: 285d4b5d19415db2ed76d39bffc5a2e31b45015d SHA-256: fa0861416f7f2cfab65457104a29bcc9bd9ea68c0a3945e346ccb5ebb4143cff
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The detection name implies a dropper functionality, which is a common initial access technique for Qbot. No VBA or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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

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