Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dc7c0eabca88e44…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: be844f44720f09d2566cb468945d411b SHA-1: 52d14f62508d18a1f550df34d5204218a466efca SHA-256: 9dc7c0eabca88e443f6b8e4b394f27bf6852d788b31f17f418ea676bba6f368d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file was detected 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 infection vector involves executing embedded VBA code to download and run the next stage.

Heuristics 1

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