Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c464bb7decb230c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7843b79fbc2cc4785d6bb159563c3c72 SHA-1: f81773dfbce28d1d0bbd66db5c57f56b30872ddf SHA-256: 7c464bb7decb230cb0f856dfb965a9fd641ea6def0d1418e6f7188b71c6c937d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to open the spreadsheet, which then likely executes embedded macros to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The presence of the Qbot signature strongly suggests this malicious behavior.

Heuristics 1

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