Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2ded4e5d3203db8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7229b1821d13cfb871dfea726e6d959e SHA-1: 4ed445e1b4bd2bfedb38315fa7ddae789df5e69d SHA-256: b2ded4e5d3203db83debb8468cfd64226ad649ec624a878a54685e0dea10fb53
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. While no specific VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic indicates the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel document.

Heuristics 1

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