Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40360f6a66a366bc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3af65822aa54db18b877bbf427073b4a SHA-1: 27142c7ffb4a3d14c25d0742d7f0a1c22de5840c SHA-256: 40360f6a66a366bc6b660369fc71a96907cbcca37ebbfe8df72147a721b31030
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its role as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The detection name suggests it is designed to drop or execute a malicious payload, likely through macro execution or exploiting a vulnerability within the Excel document itself. The primary attack pattern involves using a malicious document as an initial access vector.

Heuristics 1

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