Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bdb2f1f7b9b4449…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bf9d8ef1a8e065f58687da15daf20663 SHA-1: fcb0d2fe1c2dd3444f413ad6469d39c012aeda5c SHA-256: 1bdb2f1f7b9b4449349caa10104c147bd70dddc99da9e13f0c4d206e304ac3c6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this file as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly suggesting Qbot family involvement. As an Excel document, it likely employs social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which would then execute a dropper function to download and run a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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