Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2d628b802788199…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6e0f3ffe5bb5f7bd4efbc6992686b6be SHA-1: e57fb40abfa7d0147c39d4449e650d6419bf6308 SHA-256: c2d628b802788199bb74662aa890d03a08badd52e173e7d60c93b46dbc80feee
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 functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests it likely uses VBA to download and execute a subsequent stage 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