Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd46ab870065ee7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f96fd4e78b15a57079fb591c4711acc8 SHA-1: 67f81d36914317ad0dcd2626203c3b8956a1d3ac SHA-256: fcd46ab870065ee7f52ec88acf89a13ce33a95a70297882f614a7d5b09d2b62d
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 is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The file's nature as an Excel spreadsheet suggests it was likely delivered via a spearphishing attachment. No VBA or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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