Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db293eecf52fd49c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9da246989802176d304089a45d1d9de1 SHA-1: f29d25ef1552234f0596dba0618115591895c524 SHA-256: db293eecf52fd49c61c974dbaaadb74d6792dc0bc71c756c025b0962fd59abee
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 detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality, which is a common tactic for Qbot to establish initial access and further compromise the system.

Heuristics 1

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