Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b5a86ab686fe7c6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c20b92dedfbbc7c168a9524dfe7804ea SHA-1: 9bacd6b2e2d033a0e16692079c756b1018eb5852 SHA-256: 2b5a86ab686fe7c629693d7d5faf0be70a942341a25c3c74bdc35265b8ff0761
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1566 Phishing T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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