Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fedb96e825fb0dd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 26a7e982ff938e89ff027b550b22d376 SHA-1: 7e9223cd2f882fb06a6938c5bf17fb48d4b6e93e SHA-256: 7fedb96e825fb0dd8f1b6e4371eb4f4e3569f93fc63895fe648b9b241ae4b042
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run a secondary malicious 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