Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e22192e4dbf779a9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f68ae4a026a46d5c6bc3c4515e406b02 SHA-1: b118cd3ca365c1e49ab9c6137633b58ce0272c07 SHA-256: e22192e4dbf779a97d0c29decd7367bfd2e8b76c9cdfd26587950d1b98de0448
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly suggesting a Qbot variant. As a macro-enabled Excel file, it likely employs VBA macros to download and execute a secondary payload, a common technique for Qbot. The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash.

Heuristics 1

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