Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41fce85c6744ea41…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4587ab3d4f0a67ae76cf94073785f82a SHA-1: d07c60201a13fb591fae299dc6487f84a829d42d SHA-256: 41fce85c6744ea416233e9e1c8a085262612a47412b86f27bfed4f384824bbd6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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