Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4e7f0a55e35b3cc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 03b55ad3715ae0af310e34d8900e0306 SHA-1: 69cb66894ebc80d87b8be9fa536f96171ba2ce8a SHA-256: f4e7f0a55e35b3cc38036a00b42af28abc5e053c6b269a219c6444e1818dc0e6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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. As an Excel document, it likely relies on macro execution or a similar mechanism to download and run a secondary malicious payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator of compromise.

Heuristics 1

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