Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bb35e59aa2c40c9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6d2bcb2663c9ae8da0ba4f3861163e04 SHA-1: 969ab3abbf1892ba805e16119a94965fea8e4338 SHA-256: 2bb35e59aa2c40c9875b29fc9932749f5b98b52d6203082c496fbdb5cad46a23
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant. Such documents typically rely on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute malicious code to download and run further stages of the malware. The heuristic firing indicates a dropper functionality, consistent with Qbot's known behavior.

Heuristics 1

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