Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2b900b6db0c802b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 82f7bbc786670d882b8d348efc1f5891 SHA-1: f8f3034ff770c09cf846f12632f9a1d2ada74025 SHA-256: a2b900b6db0c802b66d6f62cb1d278acc5f409421c6cce6b7e4d73b81648c310
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: User Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then execute the malicious payload. The primary attack pattern involves delivering the Qbot malware via a malicious Excel attachment.

Heuristics 1

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