Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2480c602d825c9ad…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8a045ba6c44d0d9968482889977e3132 SHA-1: fcf39342bd04749a7c06838e9f96fe46426e166c SHA-256: 2480c602d825c9ad0560c819e75fcff92f723f3394205b682e5fe76178b4b97d
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 deliver a payload. As an Excel file, it likely uses macro execution or exploits to achieve this. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary stage, characteristic of 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