Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba4649aa8b032cd4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f2b82a3e4b90aef522b0d57383334bc4 SHA-1: 7a12e73b5d63fedd1bb95bf9706a0bf1ba5c4f46 SHA-256: ba4649aa8b032cd438b444792ed3f8d4c493a8cc0f8357a0ca35e001355a05bc
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.QbotDocu, strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant used for dropping secondary payloads. The detection name suggests a macro-enabled Excel document (Xls) acting as a dropper. While no VBA or scripts were explicitly extracted in the provided evidence, the ClamAV signature implies malicious macro execution to achieve its objective.

Heuristics 1

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