Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c21176e7e0bd8fa3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 04b3be773a3d075b7b609ede8f299e0e SHA-1: 9477112b0f8bbddead51a495338b7e01f16c6e76 SHA-256: c21176e7e0bd8fa371f5848cde4d9464f361208813ea4999c02bdf989af2a406
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The primary evidence is the critical ClamAV detection, which points to a known dropper functionality. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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