Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a525bb76c94e49f4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 65f147bb9a66892de35ea2a552f35ecc SHA-1: 3b220cadae7e4c4ade28779252b4adba824904c8 SHA-256: a525bb76c94e49f496dbf3564f5a7b4f19efe07cefa1e701b7025462c1d40d6f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified 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 a user into opening a malicious Excel attachment, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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