Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 268ac0bd4bfbf472…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: dba3e292f905faf65756db34b5051670 SHA-1: f22bd48a30bbbe7243fa228ff65cb798274a500c SHA-256: 268ac0bd4bfbf472f712b4521173d4ef5e7a5138a6e35a7bf37d62ff29a66f47
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The primary function is to deliver and execute a secondary malicious payload. No VBA or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is highly specific.

Heuristics 1

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