Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42761ac2379efb26…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 29e58c54ef223552a145327387e45a90 SHA-1: 6309c46836736c4b430ddf265a6223f611e9a5b0 SHA-256: 42761ac2379efb26fc064fef70e01844735cbec476bca20f5437bd0e9657fa14
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel file to initiate the malicious chain.

Heuristics 1

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