Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 babc426779b657e3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ec22a9a90481985c1b562629136f2aac SHA-1: b882f3b8650ca3619f8ec16527748c88bc96e658 SHA-256: babc426779b657e3afe00e23f5d7d0db22d2e7e0ee2c7e027d4d63b6bdae89e0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

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. As an Excel file, it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run a secondary malicious payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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