Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 486893b43880e4d9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f64c1d5a9155f34981085230824f2f9a SHA-1: ce3911207ae4845a6a01ec84c94e7cdb2935bccd SHA-256: 486893b43880e4d9798a395c2028a7050ec581be5e215b45f088cdf6dad63ffe
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 indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests the initial execution vector involves enabling macros within the Excel document to trigger the download and execution process.

Heuristics 1

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