Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 201b47a548b0d633…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b1f49576efeae2e63cbfee7e1c9f9555 SHA-1: 677a3a2a5c8e17a35135d3a3b8c7969133c5c02e SHA-256: 201b47a548b0d6334c67b695c31318ce05348df9f29ca58feef0ece7bbc82d7a
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 it's a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then execute the malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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