Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 973ef8ac55cb0cc2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: dfd9a369cffb7a27c472187eef02e627 SHA-1: 7cd93b6cfa6c5fc3360dbb740fc11b8051cac4ab SHA-256: 973ef8ac55cb0cc2c2fb35dff354234265764ec4705c5c2929993203c2fa59bf
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 payload, a common tactic for Qbot. 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