Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 402e976141c607f7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6c09b0413ff38153b2a7ee9536773196 SHA-1: 52a63f5e8cf2771ff4b97048b22670ef16753737 SHA-256: 402e976141c607f71790ac02351a857e0c59031bcdd873b6b2b822777f34744d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it's a Qbot variant. Such documents typically rely on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then download and execute further malicious stages. The detection name itself indicates a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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