Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40dd2d6fd68e91d9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1ede754b2170cc5f1249cafb633c10f9 SHA-1: dfae9581472412cee267bdb20a61131c5c168d55 SHA-256: 40dd2d6fd68e91d9d37dc8e0359362cc10e778eb2fae6c3b3fc9ef134dfe3eca
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a further stage payload.

Heuristics 1

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