Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd31f0b17266a452…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b6161e6f03a3e3297077977d4c17e6d3 SHA-1: d78181bff13e2dd07fab062c14d2cf189bd3b453 SHA-256: fd31f0b17266a4521a740d1a904a7416fe62b7ecf855a30ff1cca49883db38ea
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. While no specific VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic firing indicates the Excel file's primary purpose is to download and execute a malicious payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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