Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0caeea0de992f41…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 136b399587c8153a5be7dffd4b9a0c6c SHA-1: 35a6ecb25c25c3b93c3d37f4529c5b3648bf4cb8 SHA-256: a0caeea0de992f4194cf7cc80a36c8d4fb9b513961c1378869b3ed12a6302e07
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

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 specific VBA scripts or document body content were extracted, the heuristic detection points to a malicious Excel file intended to download and execute a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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