Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 473602e00724009f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5e6e1306061530266890c9f056add594 SHA-1: 864ee59a5df38b25eb473189929532c1760c2b68 SHA-256: 473602e00724009f41c2b961e8ec1612cb434e096b469581f1309725fbfe4a78
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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 indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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