Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7d54057887f169d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a2d7573983ef49d44c8c6d2d8b98d2e3 SHA-1: 238f2a3f11685ad6adac9da1993a907af8019fc1 SHA-256: f7d54057887f169df37deeaaee6d47f3749bd97883c54d365036e2b4dc09440d
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 drop a secondary payload. The Excel format indicates a likely phishing lure, requiring user interaction (macro enablement) to initiate the malicious process. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic points to a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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