Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4afefa5d3b052de4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3cb97b9485893bf155c0c246c6709cae SHA-1: f2ddb4cdd3a0e6232706d8664127b38c05f623ee SHA-256: 4afefa5d3b052de4866850dd871a9d4c2e14655a5681c3fb22e05bb365293c0b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The ClamAV heuristic explicitly identifies the file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting a Qbot family dropper. The file type is an Excel spreadsheet, a common format for macro-based malware delivery. The likely attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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