Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e62b8175b07c463…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f403071a7d230fa1a08f90b762990f34 SHA-1: 5e6c14a45d2e829fd596f709405f08c80b7e8f69 SHA-256: 4e62b8175b07c463c49c437efc67669a4b1228d6d7265d39bb659346a67867d7
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a payload. While no specific script content was extracted, the heuristic firing is sufficient to infer the malicious intent and delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 1

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