Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eac14231c3726e2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 705b7540850199e199e0a9cb9a603013 SHA-1: a4bb855413d9b9e76941b9ed5330ac3914452fb7 SHA-256: 1eac14231c3726e25b07f0971b9a8582a7a5a3018d165965645388a95d0cfd8d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family dropper. The document's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, characteristic of Qbot's typical infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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