Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 465efe34bd451382…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7a905fb4f8202e81401ef96afeb469ed SHA-1: c06777faff765906726f73cf7df418d1c5190c46 SHA-256: 465efe34bd451382e6b99a7dd749b98d7ef85df88af6ed7743d074606d8ed067
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 is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution to download and run a secondary stage payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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