Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2a721628e8ef2f6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 579dd2bb5a6faa066eb0994e0547c735 SHA-1: df52356079d4322b64843db126c766152ffff90c SHA-256: e2a721628e8ef2f681d93a7594fe1babfef1766536a2c7d1c0125be02028aacd
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. While no VBA scripts or document body text were extracted, the heuristic detection implies the Excel file contains malicious code intended to download and execute a secondary payload, a common Qbot tactic. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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