Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ed32f4e1d7bd994…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 401fed23b6982fa001eb7cd955f75890 SHA-1: 64c3ba9699a142096d5bf7f9b40681a43dd9cfa6 SHA-256: 1ed32f4e1d7bd9940a90da509b1fdebe15bad4b84c0cfe20750965e90b60df8e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop additional malware. The detection name implies a macro-based dropper functionality, which is a common initial access vector for Qbot. The sample's structure and detection name indicate it likely attempts to execute malicious code upon macro enablement.

Heuristics 1

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