Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e90ec3fe516aa96e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: faaee3d0ee9913701ce7a273cd01fee0 SHA-1: 6a975ac070249e5c7e8958e0cd2079f6a2ddd163 SHA-256: e90ec3fe516aa96eb43426a33f578eea186143fc5c868ee4ab42d9a332a00213
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 a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a further stage payload. This aligns with typical Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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