Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44f8d60d3d6d06b3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b9ff6812ee55e3cb95aac2233772bfa0 SHA-1: 63f4faeaead413f26a23fd95178043082d9dc8d0 SHA-256: 44f8d60d3d6d06b3245665c715c17fe8058d032924fb08e0ee16ef5b17af873a
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's a Qbot variant designed to drop additional malware. The detection implies the presence of malicious macro code, typical for Qbot, which would likely attempt to download and execute a second-stage payload upon user interaction.

Heuristics 1

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