Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a8604f29cdf3a90…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5a78f4df0d6d67c9f3c0eaeacc66aa46 SHA-1: 4534a3f3dc880c619e1f96b1ee6e29f5b0323f3e SHA-256: 2a8604f29cdf3a90e3ee25cbd2bbeaa1e1d5520a0e693c9d6b0eef146375b70c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 85%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel spreadsheet. The ClamAV heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it's a Qbot downloader. The file's purpose is to drop and execute a secondary malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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