Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a47e1586b398fa4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9f74f7f5c7c68af28f590935147eb5b2 SHA-1: 28e0f10bcd5340b02ab7f8ce2877924f9f1c63a0 SHA-256: 1a47e1586b398fa4ef24b887ea9eb1464f95b0c2e8ad61bc13a8a6b2df003e2c
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 functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the execution of a secondary payload. While no specific scripts or document body content were provided for analysis, the heuristic detection is sufficient to infer its malicious intent and likely family.

Heuristics 1

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