Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20213fd20d03c78e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 928ead09f5d4ac6caaa362fa12adeb05 SHA-1: 289d4d09413b3473c90aa7de6e08f9adc905708b SHA-256: 20213fd20d03c78ebdd14010e82482906852be6bc2364f15c1c39172bad7d32d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to drop further malicious content. The Excel format suggests a macro-based execution flow, likely involving a phishing lure to enable macros, followed by the download and execution of a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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