Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b7c759809b883e9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8d4070e799c6a34b6f0a8a1dc9e5322c SHA-1: 42d002d70ecb2c52d61b2b695cc4c5f32f4f0fdf SHA-256: 4b7c759809b883e9f67f659889d2f572f3655d0fe26ce507c19065b69f92fc1b
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 act as a dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run a secondary malicious payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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