Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86a15ee75567d566…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 49e4ae23b84a2393f88196e72403b953 SHA-1: 997fb229445671339c5b4d76769113070b15ea9b SHA-256: 86a15ee75567d566ab0609aa8e4d139137d8894cb2efa5587fef6a8f74d75b1e
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 dropper. This type of document typically uses macros to download and execute a secondary payload, which is characteristic of Qbot's distribution methods. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports this assessment.

Heuristics 1

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