Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b86ebdaf8fffd8c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a3783d8b8170521ff0d00a0eb3b81d69 SHA-1: 7293d0f6e3d4f3d2e9618aad296bb640b957c624 SHA-256: 2b86ebdaf8fffd8ce162b95d1c9222d60f6f4c264284d0994958521e36c7cbd2
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 belongs to the Qbot family and functions as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. No scripts or document body 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