Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb6ba6a59b455589…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2666bd202056798243a810f7dc4176cc SHA-1: c7d84e5cd7d3dbebeeabe68e4b32c0119dd20f93 SHA-256: bb6ba6a59b455589173b77f203f02d9d700c9928527e162bfcec9ffd3643ebc2
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 indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The Office (OOXML) file type and the dropper heuristic suggest a typical delivery mechanism for Qbot, which often involves malicious macros or embedded exploits to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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