Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4140573058fba142…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2d3696dafb48810442dd8f8a847b0447 SHA-1: ec722a5b7aaad92fbfd12da67cdf75d7f2e05c8b SHA-256: 4140573058fba1426185e1c4dbdccb3ddfdc0cec512673db41825020a07a8eba
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. Its primary purpose is to deliver and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel document to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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