Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 972bec6744d8fcf4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: dbbcb163f4f4ed9b90cd8e4dd18249dc SHA-1: 2192db6c50a1c745e6991f9216e37be911102786 SHA-256: 972bec6744d8fcf46821a7a19f40980d96385c8b7971e3423ac25c90f33c9e54
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. No VBA or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic strongly suggests a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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