Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44f4ea4f771cb2b0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f60a163d006eb13b44df0d227583e7a7 SHA-1: 26333f931c02280b27781557ae17e6c636c7391b SHA-256: 44f4ea4f771cb2b065d56f928d428af6dd3985dc5692373f9dadcdfa65b4c732
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating Qbot malware. As a dropper, its primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The presence of Qbot heuristics suggests a sophisticated attack involving phishing and payload delivery.

Heuristics 1

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