Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43b12837f3e63bbf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e9a5dcb22c79b0580073d8de122bfad7 SHA-1: fc5db186e0dfd50ddcf1817c5863a77c6a5afb71 SHA-256: 43b12837f3e63bbf83ecdf5b286b6fea04a209ee61f4d866f0c630b5919e3c67
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

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 primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution tactics.

Heuristics 1

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