Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 279bed50c0e039cd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9a37b977440d16271530eed1adf3746f SHA-1: 495d01e32283191674cc70487f1a9e5d40199b0d SHA-256: 279bed50c0e039cd60fa602ed7faec40eae795efd3a9c9ef4c07db8485f3a41b
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_DETECTION heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to likely download and execute the Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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