Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f946978f99eca2d2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4689adc468260d9aa78af8e9cae766ef SHA-1: f50c3940b4508cc497e6b8e60ca6dbc12de1ca2d SHA-256: f946978f99eca2d26c410e9ac6de46d09d939dd352ea19459df1f49fd12e481a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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