Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb38861b5ffd4286…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 265fb2566b946582f629cedd4d94ada6 SHA-1: acd4e2a07dc51d57c3239d30f680b56eeb0142d2 SHA-256: cb38861b5ffd4286ac470841429dc3b7901e700d05f2443a12515b81c74e97df
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening the malicious spreadsheet, which then likely executes a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is provided as a key indicator.

Heuristics 1

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