Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e614189c21d48ce…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: df9ea63aae54dcc36c9c587e45fda1ce SHA-1: 57bfe5e67df16b30200883e7af1ddbafd04a94aa SHA-256: 2e614189c21d48ce9397fd82c667181421c618bbc2a7bb021243d52663e8567e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The document's metadata suggests it was created in 2006, but the detection name points to a more recent Qbot variant. It is likely designed to exploit macro vulnerabilities or social engineering to download and execute the Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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