Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef685744ec869e53…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6b95bd43afb2033f4c843d49d972e592 SHA-1: ad21b3301edbfd9f00ca9eb0a80ba3c79691d6bd SHA-256: ef685744ec869e53089820838900ad3cd0b7f347102fc8b37efb8888a0bff1ca
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 suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The detection implies the Excel file contains malicious macros or embedded objects intended to download and execute a secondary stage payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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