Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46a5f7c3d7a457ad…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 94c19b2d18b3596c6cd28fb6a8d8f747 SHA-1: af91932b0ab09c4300f1035f21208cdc56d89380 SHA-256: 46a5f7c3d7a457ad56f58c580727e54c885e783764bd7b35477862fd3d21168c
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 suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run a secondary malicious payload, a common technique for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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