Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4789327a46d0e64e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 40b37a30166082aff7661cd4de98c92a SHA-1: 0e059ae2a5b11d103ed5118534c025ab61c594cf SHA-256: 4789327a46d0e64eefc4054ad2925576bd453b67a4733a14952e4b646bcb8067
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.Qbot, strongly indicating it's a Qbot downloader. The primary function is to deliver and execute a secondary malicious payload. The detection name suggests a dropper functionality, which aligns with Qbot's typical behavior of downloading further stages.

Heuristics 1

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