Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbf1e3c7a2d6b7b8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7447d558eb7eacfb8628aa9e420e03c6 SHA-1: 16462335b56ff97b6c3a03144e08fdb6cf0e65ee SHA-256: dbf1e3c7a2d6b7b817488b068c6176859a3e7055baed5108a47509443957007d
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, indicating it is a Qbot dropper. Such files typically rely on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros. Once enabled, the macro executes, downloading and running a secondary payload, consistent with the Ingress Tool Transfer technique.

Heuristics 1

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