Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2dc804d1b56e39a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: baad5ebbe2faa946ac24033a0dd5b41c SHA-1: 42ab85f00b7897b60d272b9e565695f2af27c19a SHA-256: e2dc804d1b56e39a2f899c1c13f32fe49a7e5511dde6b4f24ab5ca9fd77977e3
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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, strongly indicating Qbot malware. As a dropper, its primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The file's structure and heuristic detection point towards a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Heuristics 1

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