Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 286d4053b822dc8f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 494eec75f1fe32202381c8e22a1945c9 SHA-1: bb224c1f785c46c0c59619ce8606db517e7df076 SHA-256: 286d4053b822dc8faf14bea00fefff5e0270c5bf6375c17c5b93e6c88fbce8f3
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 a user to open a malicious Excel file, which then executes embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. This is consistent with Qbot's typical distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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