Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb1c1659604e640a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8fca21b85deb00376e5d4b33a6929129 SHA-1: e59b5ef6631fe8ae304270dd82d2f3906002b7ed SHA-256: eb1c1659604e640ad096ba1ac3b0e578023adb5d28ac0d61058ab5d05dccdce6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The detection name implies a macro-based dropper, which is a common initial access vector for Qbot. Further analysis of the document's content and any embedded scripts would be necessary to confirm the exact execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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