Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f95bf0f71e4ab1fe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0794fb45208b192aa1aa7a1e450fadb4 SHA-1: 88d0ecbf6c3e48470d038d3de0b0d79dee0ad361 SHA-256: f95bf0f71e4ab1fef23fceee0544592f0dc842b8eb62cdfb149f342e538488b7
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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