Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ba2b812ab73c136…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ffc79731ce4abb8614a9341aed669077 SHA-1: d3176db6d152db06ecb720f17214db3fd2e73c0d SHA-256: 2ba2b812ab73c1362919304e1158ac49102ac29b54e55ee4bb0c0304d3c5dc18
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 a Qbot family infection. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to enable macros, leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. This aligns with typical Qbot dropper behavior.

Heuristics 1

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