Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4988d4e99b85c29d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 814eac39f030d2131418a7589dcfd44f SHA-1: 541c37dfc54490cc9740b69da1df7e674a0a835c SHA-256: 4988d4e99b85c29dc6ea2e8e1f797a1051a775d9250ad8859ef029fa5dde29a8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical heuristic firing from ClamAV directly identifies the file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting Qbot family involvement. The file type is an Excel macro-enabled document, commonly used for initial infection vectors. The presence of a dropper heuristic indicates the primary function is to download and execute additional malicious content.

Heuristics 1

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