Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c495a2d93df177b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c505e6a3574fedf5a25a3a91c25d888c SHA-1: 5869e12e63abc09e92ffb2de76f2aa5582c1eed0 SHA-256: 2c495a2d93df177b44c03c4b759cba2cd8d8a888fb928d4753f6e7827f0120af
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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 it's a Qbot dropper. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior. The detection name itself serves as a key indicator of the threat.

Heuristics 1

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