Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2490c28c019b9e4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6b05452f88e58e9c01cf394d65e625c2 SHA-1: 0ee4c2743fc8726fec837bbb24f3d2998ebde6dd SHA-256: a2490c28c019b9e4044529471aeb7e47a552eedda61aa42fa44ba1b16c02190a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: 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. Its primary purpose is to deliver and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel document. The detection signature itself is treated as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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