Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e93e834f779ee85…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3f1deddaabea571921b8ac4f7271360d SHA-1: f6c7466b1c465b6c706701799d65588a9d3c4aff SHA-256: 4e93e834f779ee850e00ca32b0d6b3279b17d0ca1aac22342e7c2ab166867e2c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. While no document body or scripts were extracted, the heuristic firing suggests the Excel file contains malicious content 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