Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36a4f336d788a271…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a2be5ba0cb26fb28cbb0328351518c66 SHA-1: bcb58827292f3adb41526a8cd9f17f0183beb8d7 SHA-256: 36a4f336d788a271ab684167ac847895e6b4ed0421316e2062f3614e0db1faa3
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: 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 indicating a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to download and execute a secondary stage payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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