Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffc4757f56e2c5d1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 256cd97dbf34976b89349881183f638f SHA-1: 464ca09125ea0df0e451bc48817ca9c1ad1f1700 SHA-256: ffc4757f56e2c5d1e4c9780b00267fdfe6b700237f72b4b5a4cd261d10b128f5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', a known Qbot variant. This heuristic strongly suggests the Excel file acts as a dropper for a malicious payload. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious document, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the payload execution.

Heuristics 1

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