Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28cc2d4cfb609b1a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 97ad1bdc968294b4f1815cd9e80f60e3 SHA-1: 0868f23cab9e0728412e21cf2a70f29f2e3693c1 SHA-256: 28cc2d4cfb609b1ad2405afd77867867e961a7855928da10979756d086cc917e
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 detected 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