Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cdedb2670794260…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1c7f105e9a33c57af44d70c89d124601 SHA-1: 2ed3afae0c13ce08bcb9919b00df4477ff88df32 SHA-256: 2cdedb26707942605a51c69cafeb54d1278eda2be89f6e876600257a94d1f0c2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV heuristic explicitly identifies this file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. Qbot is known to be distributed via malicious Office documents, often using macro-based execution to download and run the main payload. The file's metadata shows it is an Excel file, consistent with this delivery method.

Heuristics 1

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