Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20251016989d1a3a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: df7c07e6721c399d9c6996ebb925c306 SHA-1: 23babc0dba9174977d86d8327a6ed0e18a1dded3 SHA-256: 20251016989d1a3aef1bda7185452bc6cefe346850c8596b31aeba2b7ca85d1a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop additional malware. The OOXML format indicates it's likely a macro-enabled document, a common delivery mechanism for Qbot. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to initiate the malicious payload download.

Heuristics 1

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