Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be92a2087350c278…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2682fdaa7534ae41ddf950e8738ab2f9 SHA-1: d87b05841f4daf9c571fe9b9b9b4f2253b8849ae SHA-256: be92a2087350c278c999ce2cc5443af388170450ac0c22ffaec4242105643dc7
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting a Qbot family infection. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to enable macros, which would then execute malicious code to download and run a secondary 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