Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2af13b8c7140cd4b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0f649a487006ceb669c4a9176c06afed SHA-1: e270c155ed355be71f50b3d387b4ea55c4bca398 SHA-256: 2af13b8c7140cd4b181ce579d00c102c109f61ddd2bff59206f24972e2908ddf
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a malicious payload. The primary function appears to be the initial infection vector for a Qbot campaign. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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