Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc168a7a72fb9217…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d894feb808a974b0e185a15c7b775ad3 SHA-1: b21a98339811e1d154d87f9b608a6a2e22172fac SHA-256: cc168a7a72fb92173ffee8c5e498f5f0d7a30580e3a5c3e907fe045964b6a078
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. As an Excel macro-enabled document, it likely uses malicious macros to download and execute 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