Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc5b5146cd1525c6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4a691513873cc2d14d78bc819b7428be SHA-1: 164a8850741ff0fd00631f6dd0922202dcb2beee SHA-256: fc5b5146cd1525c696b962d53d20220d94e20766f1ee0d3c528845d0f53af48f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant. The detection name suggests it functions as a dropper, likely employing macro-based execution to download and install a secondary 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