Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a9e964865be9661…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: de995a2c2f37dac3ca3d2c5abf4ad4ec SHA-1: 4a7b9214c2e93daef278168ac6cec570d6c9796f SHA-256: 2a9e964865be96610271d93446854688fd947718ff32d01429595089bfb003a3
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. Such files are typically used to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, with the spreadsheet acting as the initial lure.

Heuristics 1

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