Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f40ce5cf4f24e1dc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 06c878f48821c644bde040c972d8e93b SHA-1: 2d42dc92a6c3a3d1a65c697ccc13a22c1059bbcb SHA-256: f40ce5cf4f24e1dc2821fbed8857d9f369b02b38ee1ec3a5a34b99e809b34b0e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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