Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbd77d9f55da8e64…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b2310d221c4c642087b3f9dffa79beff SHA-1: 6e0cf9e39e81869b0dc70403c049e44956f725b5 SHA-256: fbd77d9f55da8e64d116b4947c78be1f1d7f5c7bd682e7309c647c72afbf0e8d
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 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