Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca195b6e8db546d5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a8a2b9a63b10c4a62df2dc2b2ee43145 SHA-1: b7f057e4d29fed932b68283a22dea61901331b01 SHA-256: ca195b6e8db546d5f0412a61702627b879417e5f64c9ad40ef8cb858f856dcb0
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 functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a further stage. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is highly indicative of 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

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