Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2890a9a05b5e0f62…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f8e9e3de8561ed9a0906523d2014ba2d SHA-1: 120a569e0acdf7042909bd6de5e70032d0474079 SHA-256: 2890a9a05b5e0f62c28b8d44772bea1a200ef785c30d7d32cb297b8f1ab3fe91
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The detection name suggests a macro-enabled document used for initial infection. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening the malicious Excel file, which then executes embedded malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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