Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 240db8183cd243d4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3e72747e695002aacf5bddb774c3fed1 SHA-1: 1eed625673b362d231a96d167d34b44f9e5a9381 SHA-256: 240db8183cd243d458a54093ee4e79bb6d923f7d900befb40aad6e99c6b43c9b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family dropper. The file is an OOXML Excel document, a common delivery mechanism for macro-based malware. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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