Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 496187f8613d9d48…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5b8622ad4f37294282aed1cdcb74bb3b SHA-1: 18cab3d77aeeba0ba1cb55ecb2cbe041869920d4 SHA-256: 496187f8613d9d48b31d8356b122a58c7cc587e1c3896596096b1b16793462e9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. While no VBA scripts or document body text were extracted, the heuristic firing suggests the Excel file's primary purpose is to download and execute a malicious payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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