Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 565c7232c5243354…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d678db80d63f35f624d2b17a764f35fc SHA-1: c8208113d1867aebc1d59ae547277f89406063db SHA-256: 565c7232c52433544a1eab4be8df80271a52441c8407dc264617a369ea100abd
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. The detection name suggests a dropper functionality, which is consistent with Qbot's typical behavior of downloading and executing further malware. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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