Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db325d571246b033…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b0d06bd22316bc69d75f9d93497f66c8 SHA-1: 2b3c8bc610c0b171684f8b320bc126b3aa62fad7 SHA-256: db325d571246b033716270ef33c789a8e70cd4ac661bfe1a2dfe3a6e2f6e53c4
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

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 document, it likely uses macro execution or an embedded exploit to download and run a secondary malicious payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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