Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba009a1bfd15e8bd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3a3f5fb99e5bd8e257e5e9fb3ca34302 SHA-1: c0150c146e32033c46b5b482b0cf72a38b6c05ba SHA-256: ba009a1bfd15e8bdb68cc0f0f92f72072d5a0a68e181448db997f622b89ca552
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 indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. While no specific VBA or script content was provided, the heuristic firing suggests the document likely contains malicious macros or exploits to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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