Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e82736871864152c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e6e3e24009b73462820ea1452a529c8e SHA-1: 19294185855795481955c358b8815fc6dc113519 SHA-256: e82736871864152c1a31e733aace25888ab60d11d67ef633e83cf54db8239023
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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 suggesting it's a Qbot variant. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to enable macros, which would then execute malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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