Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c140aac177533f3a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c4e862984ce1f2bf26317affb9c18913 SHA-1: 65be10398690e733d4cd00ed30b1b8903541a1d5 SHA-256: c140aac177533f3a4023355cc575a21432f4752f72e1907f90e78e92585fed4f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The ClamAV heuristic explicitly identifies the file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper document. The file is an Excel spreadsheet, a common format for macro-based malware delivery. The primary purpose is to download and execute a second-stage Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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