Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb64b1a59f7ea47e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 36542d9d0740efc882f843cb91c2ccdf SHA-1: 282576c2171b17a14ee01842efc92f319ebe89d6 SHA-256: cb64b1a59f7ea47e2b1d9c773b3d2686483488a4d30c95c7a0a028e8d1f4ec89
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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