Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c480973b013b52b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 783cb90e4550b023f05c785aee579566 SHA-1: dbbd0212bf1be2660a3494c1926999776805d5db SHA-256: 4c480973b013b52b810396d4bc1ec08215d8e2114c8cce9a0aacbcc9bb2e9794
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 acts as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The detection name implies it's designed to download and execute a secondary payload, likely initiated by user interaction such as enabling macros.

Heuristics 1

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