Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24222490382c0946…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8e0f6933a0ff69d22ec5cc8a6d74237c SHA-1: 51b92e1872437eaf4671f8bbe1fa8b427598660e SHA-256: 24222490382c0946585a768bd016921b56089aed90d3bbcc9b874c1ecc4d2c20
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 is a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role as a dropper. The file's metadata suggests it is an older Excel document, potentially used for initial infection vectors.

Heuristics 1

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