Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4818b5eb8c3a56cc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 28d74becd3e026c5057b171352e29e26 SHA-1: eab4ff5dd4ad99c7cf2325d720b27d31dc62b4c3 SHA-256: 4818b5eb8c3a56cc12c96ab8083d363eae4efe22f8ce46bb7130cb1a0ec10d09
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 drop and execute a malicious payload. The primary function appears to be initial infection vector, likely through social engineering within the Excel document itself, leading to the download of further malware.

Heuristics 1

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