Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35868c5bd19abb69…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 11244bb8ab307527c77823a72f94dcf8 SHA-1: 8dbdceb54730ff8f6089570c1d12ded90b95f3bc SHA-256: 35868c5bd19abb692d7fc85f84c08eb297ba1d835007cce7d69879d57f24737a
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_DETECTION heuristic specifically names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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