Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcda7828d3dc2723…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8c4dd7263e6a6d759be22e2758357fac SHA-1: 048f7f2ad652ea3cdb33d4b651c10619eeda6f8e SHA-256: dcda7828d3dc2723eb357940dbd2e597828accd333b0c37f3843aff8e6520f58
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 into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the payload execution. While no specific scripts or URLs were extracted, the heuristic detection is sufficient for a high-confidence assessment.

Heuristics 1

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