Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4346bad426b76d5c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d1dee1eb010a486b8d2eaabfcd0ccd8d SHA-1: f0447f118c8223e5d206a30b697f52d9f5771760 SHA-256: 4346bad426b76d5ce282503b8522affced079060f1613f774f525ae80d895cfe
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant used for delivering malicious payloads. The presence of macro-related heuristics indicates that the spreadsheet likely contains embedded VBA code intended to execute, which is a common initial access vector for Qbot to download and run further stages of the malware.

Heuristics 1

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