Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe43e273a8eb0b7f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fe973b0d76232b218bcbddff096289ce SHA-1: 8d135e611db7df03f2b7830d7e585729a6841a1f SHA-256: fe43e273a8eb0b7f129d8b35bd8637a0f74697986121f53427f12158958e2f00
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 deliver a payload. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution (T1059.005) to achieve this, fitting the spearphishing attachment tactic (T1566.002). The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash.

Heuristics 1

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