Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46f39090fedfb9fc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 707a1c6d4e9589839a03d05efddc1b6f SHA-1: a2f93419fb6e61a1336020918d5c235f427a07e5 SHA-256: 46f39090fedfb9fc336c3e789c76740c0316edc95e5bde4fcdab49e43e6a26a0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it's a Qbot variant. Such documents typically rely on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then download and execute further malicious stages. The heuristic firing indicates a dropper functionality, consistent with Qbot's known behavior.

Heuristics 1

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