Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a2365f6e1af5af…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e2cb256036b434f3329056e07c1aad6d SHA-1: fef3c6d36613e25f596a0230d85cc987432d26e2 SHA-256: a7a2365f6e1af5af06fec24d6dd83033349bc853a85bc9fce03f6c0f37145b34
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests it likely uses embedded VBA to download and execute a secondary payload, a common Qbot delivery technique. The file's purpose is to initiate a malware infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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