Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 456a2e66aa0a836f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fa003f9a3b7c4a8286de9a263939d97a SHA-1: 8f19785e9363929e6a5764c4b671447e18cacbe4 SHA-256: 456a2e66aa0a836f1d7ec81d19ad6f5e0b5417382b4ab9b4c30d4f94b48049d6
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', a known Qbot variant. This suggests the Excel file is designed to act as a dropper, likely leveraging macro execution to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The detection strongly indicates a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Heuristics 1

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