Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b464862b97c21deb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 29d3c70eaf65da5712d70f5f459585ea SHA-1: bb252de47c2a1816f02c76ce3583049296d11e1e SHA-256: b464862b97c21deb46d1d715fe36f0fd6742b0a78c7444ecfb09f350a779768e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', a known Qbot variant. This heuristic indicates the Excel file likely functions as a dropper, intended to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports this, suggesting the use of Visual Basic for Applications to initiate the malicious chain.

Heuristics 1

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