Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40d68e3166dcc30c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f309175e591eb387dc21d16401e3c5da SHA-1: ec87d2d2005b49b6c14c80cd67aff12dcbba9872 SHA-256: 40d68e3166dcc30c79253eff4acaa736e12c24aebea7eeb5d229a79fda57df3a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of file is typically used to lure users into enabling macros, which then download and execute the Qbot malware. The detection name itself suggests 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