Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb23e8ced2456388…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b3a0b0402fb9f3f1a0f3d20aac181616 SHA-1: 84e6ab04b81091d67b3c90fbc132b55ae12bb4dd SHA-256: eb23e8ced245638862b542a3e3ba81d86b530027814870de68fa5a5a3995374f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically uses macros to download and execute the main Qbot payload, making it a spearphishing attachment. The heuristic firing directly supports the Qbot family attribution and the dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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