Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e28a4ea81afadb85…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 117a0fff5e39d2ff71f9156b8f5f534b SHA-1: 6e0acb19247cbcb6c53ab709c0017b99caa39f93 SHA-256: e28a4ea81afadb851d0a97e8f439cde92fac7315f968c32abfb0a086d2862f33
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected 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 a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a payload. No VBA or script content was extracted, but the ClamAV signature is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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