Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f28857f73e21a76…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5b5b4981007aee98d2ede6b2aa158f72 SHA-1: 7ec58cb81b4ac7b94d307acbcc25a08183044dab SHA-256: 4f28857f73e21a769b5c8e6883eba88a0226eae8a6a90cce56f2f6d759d922d1
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 the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a payload. While no specific scripts or document body content were provided, the heuristic detection is sufficient to infer its malicious intent and likely family.

Heuristics 1

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