Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46ba69c4c67946fc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3c6da140350cd7684b5bc5b71bca7ff7 SHA-1: 0f5cdc047d70f9ae99b0c14ec5332cc2099700a9 SHA-256: 46ba69c4c67946fc805cf99da5a4dd140f2b5700da8b665e02fa587d2c0abe04
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', a known Qbot variant. This heuristic strongly suggests the file's purpose is to act as a dropper, likely leveraging embedded macros to download and execute a secondary stage payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Heuristics 1

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