Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20dbf13058444809…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 25d2356b60afad9b574c8074f4139857 SHA-1: 150b4f642b12ce07bfa295bd4ba0bf5a530847da SHA-256: 20dbf13058444809bfc6a93d6a8c839da5ed148bbb5f0f2f34666b78c0ebbaa7
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, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a further stage payload. This aligns with typical 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