Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eca49a96c6d8b99e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0590165b66092fc30a1bd558c0e2a8ea SHA-1: 7378e4574bd8e1513fd02ed9cf1a19843af5855d SHA-256: eca49a96c6d8b99e19d471d083143474e4c358061af2dc22a91e39ac1341589a
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 functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded 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