Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f27f4c2b728a8c5c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5801b7417ebc1c014ca2d4f18cce419a SHA-1: f737cddec9497f4e3a63faed71191c545ae93680 SHA-256: f27f4c2b728a8c5c18d2093ce0096a0b3bf4d0ccca447aab966b93f7e4ea8e11
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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. While no specific VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic firing indicates the Excel file likely contains malicious macros or embedded objects intended to download and execute a secondary payload, a common Qbot delivery technique.

Heuristics 1

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