Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fac9ea9f850e6b55…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e3b4284d82436a378cf434dc66ebd1dd SHA-1: 6e8c89e4ea12215dbcd01f21c956a61bac35a58d SHA-256: fac9ea9f850e6b55f69aeef475391ef9d8f4abbd082bb5fa874655f0365b8d29
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its function as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests it likely uses VBA to initiate the download and execution of a malicious payload. 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