Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd4abb9e3cc385c0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a8a034f7dbc535baddb918443904ef42 SHA-1: 204e8f63b2be239a08e4efdb4eb7b522077ecac5 SHA-256: fd4abb9e3cc385c0d7ad66629a1fcbff6809f9ecbc287b27b0833172ae9a00f1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it belongs to the Qbot family and functions as a dropper. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, leading the user to open the malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary 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