Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 feb5a31a85e51bc1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 23aa709f08ec3c9ee9444daf3d5a7f05 SHA-1: 08263fcde74c8b819b6fb135ce5ed2332067f7b9 SHA-256: feb5a31a85e51bc1a13f2e3852f5aa2436da6a589b61d58d6b791b175f863bcd
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting Qbot family malware. The detection name implies it functions as a dropper, likely by exploiting macro execution to download and run a secondary payload. The primary attack vector is spearphishing via a malicious attachment.

Heuristics 1

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