Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e93d2b2c3fcef36f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 66c7dbfa8f7e8fc4ebf0cbe237c913a4 SHA-1: 1575915e40bc5d5497e484b0eb11cd41c8f2a20d SHA-256: e93d2b2c3fcef36f2f1ac854f4ce5dd091f87c0995d4b83f90c6b3bd3f44b0b8
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 it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The Excel format suggests a macro-based delivery mechanism, likely relying on social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros. Once enabled, the macro would proceed to download and execute the actual malware.

Heuristics 1

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