Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42186cd211ee9369…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 34e51b12d0c2d042717e79e80b1547c0 SHA-1: affd034e8d4ffbdb7f61d6259a3d1587f5427ac4 SHA-256: 42186cd211ee936994bd37496a6b750bc92060a64a5bc0cbfb0fed4eea95b811
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper, indicating its purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload. The heuristic firing strongly suggests malicious intent, likely involving social engineering to trick the user into opening the malicious Excel file.

Heuristics 1

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