Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c428f9774f194a33…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5fe1afc5c8aac08145f3851d27729ee3 SHA-1: 803d63d9ee57482c1f340968c9438784cc118133 SHA-256: c428f9774f194a33cba776884af068b82af7c851877b845cb0a029a4f4ef98d6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
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 act as a dropper. Although no VBA scripts or document body text were extracted, the heuristic firing indicates the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a malicious 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