Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4d40931f8622165…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f1aa802726a01263a93d48a9c941fc9f SHA-1: be3f67b8898270a3869562e22ec1b40d1c661cc9 SHA-256: e4d40931f8622165871d0bb1196bd2ed0cbd857d627587269693c5c9843b39cd
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 luring the user into opening the malicious spreadsheet, which then executes a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is provided as a key indicator.

Heuristics 1

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