Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e046ed9eec0a6e8c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 745d9770f66ce6ff29c4cca9b5875075 SHA-1: 789344e7e90b99a94c6dcb1ae5a4ca2788ba29f2 SHA-256: e046ed9eec0a6e8c4c5f7f9bf8245c1462b8e32cb1bef54958a7b6fb97b41b97
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 drop a secondary payload. The Excel format suggests a macro-based execution, likely involving social engineering to trick the user into enabling content. The primary function is to download and execute further malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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