Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0ae18dbdfe2a992…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d1e7aa52db40f5c8c11c5665d0c81cfe SHA-1: 37290cb587a69d57a1f92186cdb78fa33acbc5a7 SHA-256: d0ae18dbdfe2a99294714c859a92b54dc2c9c8ba01267083922fa543ff595f40
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file was detected 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 a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. This aligns with common 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