Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c65fc5c35ee5940b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cd7a67b45980d8c0e60d6ecf64d7d6bf SHA-1: 1672c0013721f91cf08919b5946eef28b5a54134 SHA-256: c65fc5c35ee5940bbd7c3f41998e7625150bce7a3c2d5919358c91cb5bc524c0
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 drop and execute additional malware. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded macros to download and run the final payload.

Heuristics 1

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