Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fe15caebfb5f718…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 86cf593b91001bcea57f5a217e82802d SHA-1: 84acb648a093598821897bb7ccae699a158f0f83 SHA-256: 4fe15caebfb5f718fa179fdf1f06fce50db2d99c18c505ea7694977c5762fbe7
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 VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic detection points to a malicious dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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