Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 297a2251ef5ff3ac…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0e234e6c420ec2c60c8c6a4b290d8715 SHA-1: 1580087b31d86fc738ce6ced5490b4ef750bfdf1 SHA-256: 297a2251ef5ff3ac15e3a52683629e88e3b0381fefc51915ad199540bb550371
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet 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 document, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the malware download and execution process.

Heuristics 1

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