Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49b487f3dd958744…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 83909d16911a2216182552d98c77063a SHA-1: 70825983b2ff9a264817676e9b94490bb76d4f77 SHA-256: 49b487f3dd9587445820406f6129630d6173c9dc4e3e39cd99ba1d89527c66e0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating Qbot malware. The detection name suggests it functions as a dropper, implying it downloads and executes a secondary payload. This is consistent with Qbot's typical behavior of delivering further malware stages.

Heuristics 1

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