Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26b82d95817746e1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8c856d91c239e4772faea4cca27ab4f8 SHA-1: 80c5e73388876d459c5250e30b0380741f961012 SHA-256: 26b82d95817746e1da860accbf6452ba63976b90dbbf346b68aeaad179e4c97d
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', a known Qbot variant. This indicates the Excel file likely contains malicious macros or embedded objects intended to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior as a downloader. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment, leading to the execution of malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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