Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd74a2f9ca3fa46e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 930aa0c0b8329258ab1188d5ecb2d4b0 SHA-1: 41b08e9c867fe2d2da6978f36831c0f1ecd8adad SHA-256: fd74a2f9ca3fa46e79a241a67ee0eac1548350be37ef337fc055a8c60a6d155a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant. The detection name implies a dropper functionality, likely intended to download and execute a secondary payload upon user interaction, such as enabling macros. 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