Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e46757e2ad3ab80…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bbdca911d4d9433de187a01426d7184f SHA-1: 0d1a1126fc843fba0c70c9c56a972f683ebd340b SHA-256: 4e46757e2ad3ab804937afe4e0d0db520ba345eb2c73b34e8839a18c9ce073f9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 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. While no VBA or scripts were explicitly extracted, the heuristic indicates the presence of malicious code intended to download and execute a secondary 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