Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd462ca6d71ffbd0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 082ef4235dc27c6ba1ddb2c223adf3b9 SHA-1: a152890cce569df899e85c332f8427d5572de0a4 SHA-256: bd462ca6d71ffbd0ed31d4241d37b82c16b6f7623f7768deaeab108b915e8bc1
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 used for dropping additional malware. The Excel format and the heuristic firing indicate the presence of malicious macros intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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