Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1d3b5f4faaa8dc4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0f9af390c547a1af5b725893a0f22385 SHA-1: 70d37155f4ba1b80dbb6fabcb89a2cac24d8e32d SHA-256: f1d3b5f4faaa8dc4f5dd7f8cb1587d3702eea83d17966701b915d552876260a0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality within an Excel document. This points to a phishing attack vector where the user is tricked into opening the malicious spreadsheet.

Heuristics 1

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