Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4132cd6cca38ea5f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8ec99242588f96e361ec8c2bf69d750f SHA-1: 00fc4b8acdecb0f8011fbfe26a1defe56fd393c1 SHA-256: 4132cd6cca38ea5fbf92303ed4edd821e1c1bd1c9f518edffbe0e3e762f9db6a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests it likely uses VBA to download and execute a subsequent stage payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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