Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 271e6a21f11c1a9f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e349567525eb2f6da34d5fc39aca9de6 SHA-1: c8679257d3ddeb8b18ddca50cc17ba8dbfa5a4c7 SHA-256: 271e6a21f11c1a9f61542cafca5c4f97d01ee87f7d28990889dc0c68979b7364
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 85%

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. 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