Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40d237d98a151b65…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c7c16fda5bab1698f9161bebca2901a5 SHA-1: 068a01031448af79caeea64b9e0fd46cf4e13860 SHA-256: 40d237d98a151b655e15d96ca1240e332e7c386ee41cb231f65625c2750da0af
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious attachment, which then likely executes a payload to download further malicious content.

Heuristics 1

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