Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c929ef4ed363e014…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7e73d87b3c2fa89d1a0541d78c970652 SHA-1: 73fbbb6867b8f3f69ce8a3bc8fe9649a81540427 SHA-256: c929ef4ed363e014a8aac3c226f67c300e883dee0cc1a814655924a9b91eb5b7
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. While no specific VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic indicates the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel document.

Heuristics 1

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