Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a8a521562a6a5f3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e2e31f8a8c8adc752449874fbc67a87a SHA-1: efd5b2a9238fb0aa6b24e6ab92075916330898ad SHA-256: 2a8a521562a6a5f3e1c1a95d10dc8ec6b30d54c5bf43ffad5666cec90cbb3bc4
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role as a dropper, likely leveraging VBA to initiate the malicious execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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