Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3b620bf0f5178c1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1c6d5a165fb250d1f82f6d6c41a6b92e SHA-1: e1239df2861e9cd5ab023b638c658f2d54a8e37b SHA-256: e3b620bf0f5178c1b22a02d08e7b7209a51d34fc989b4b20ca5caf182ec5bad1
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 its function as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. While no specific VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic firing suggests the Excel file contains malicious code intended to download and execute a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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