Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19f438ce26465518…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 086134eb4788db0c73e49b0f9ed4d67a SHA-1: 9c1f21c326239da53dc3d72a7dd6889bbdd7304c SHA-256: 19f438ce264655189299866f7c55e20ddd3e11b1739a94a3448fdf57e0027340
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 suggesting it's a Qbot variant. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to enable macros, leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. This aligns with typical Qbot dropper behavior.

Heuristics 1

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