Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a16c1117a120c29a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f4233f677982492e04e252cb7c340c41 SHA-1: 267f92873dfcf12338ea12b9b74daa9d28a09291 SHA-256: a16c1117a120c29a0d45ef238c68142e3c212f518505740778a1b330a912bb36
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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 suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a second-stage payload. The Excel format indicates a likely phishing lure to enable macros, which would then execute the malicious payload. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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

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