Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abddd59ed6b299c6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 14c8e7317e2b1ab69a61d272d06f3e04 SHA-1: 8c6a54d57051bb944911671d197e94acc13aa42a SHA-256: abddd59ed6b299c61558fbffd0860cf965ed06abba291f7b531d63d5fafa2abf
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop malware. The file's nature as an Excel document further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector. The primary function is likely to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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