Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 290008b349bc8737…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 44f32579b9da3e0785c205cc1de6ab8f SHA-1: 74f622ce043ef0476d043e6b83e0680f2772d29a SHA-256: 290008b349bc87374fed184ba613274810ca97e34794df67f2dae3f4719c3415
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 is 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