Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e439fc2bb95a4db…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 365c2feb3551f2ef3a5c1f62d8847a5d SHA-1: cae166d04c6af7b7f30cd41c1399fa2a4d916bda SHA-256: 2e439fc2bb95a4db607612a86f7c87b900172be4bf744f2db0c766b41d471c0c
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 document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it's a Qbot variant. Such documents typically rely on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute a dropper function to download and run a secondary payload. The heuristic firing indicates a dropper functionality, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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