Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa949cbf2498caac…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 353b657017ac4cae624ae2bd9cf857f8 SHA-1: 527bf7a947d01deecd2ebf62d3cc167cd1577631 SHA-256: fa949cbf2498caac72cd2fd66c894f241a5e816cd74123d360e43f39f73f98e4
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 dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a further stage. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

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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