Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd7b4fe30bce3d12…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a11929bc6bed056f89c5f3aaab6a6729 SHA-1: e8b53298e5609f500365bfe01d7abd10df69dea7 SHA-256: cd7b4fe30bce3d1292f16c6d70325d7c1ccbc97187246e1e77e9552d1ed66c9c
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 indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to open a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a further stage payload. This aligns with typical Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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