Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d695ea526f930c34…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a15f0fc8ca7b64fd7186f44222ed1d12 SHA-1: e591ab20ea530b53a36de1eb6fc1425903fa4729 SHA-256: d695ea526f930c348723efc1a0fbf7fbeb885618a5383c5718fa87e2de66dcb2
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, indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves delivering a malicious payload via a spreadsheet attachment, a common tactic for Qbot. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is highly indicative of Qbot's known behavior.

Heuristics 1

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