Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbfbd830a76b8a66…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0e444672fe4273e1f2c28fdeaddd02fc SHA-1: 1d6652dbb69230822fdf98d6ed462ae15113d454 SHA-256: cbfbd830a76b8a66da3be8d2dfd495e789ef441a89905e4f61a6ae1edf0ae22e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant. Such files typically employ social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of the Qbot signature suggests a downloader or dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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