Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c152c65c17625c0b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8c8e70213dfba0ff7dc89723213b92c0 SHA-1: c00b3187fbce86d26ba5282f32761e0f5b115e7f SHA-256: c152c65c17625c0b30e2a8d344a707bb115af12583634623a3c36eb06306334c
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 its role as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The Excel format and the 'Dropper' classification suggest it likely exploits macro execution to download and run a malicious payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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