Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a41c58d9ea1ac784…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9ef917e236f124f8c038e65be0b9676f SHA-1: a4610f796e6c44eeff5df72e1055f27103970b32 SHA-256: a41c58d9ea1ac78403444c3571efef5e332e0aa8feb0884f09cb323dc6a39ad2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected 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 the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a further stage payload.

Heuristics 1

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