Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 498e7b9b3df5f4ad…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9c5d0bdf42f7fda52737cc22d78ccd98 SHA-1: 5f8ae727a215bbea7a0edf8c9fa7cd509e3ac205 SHA-256: 498e7b9b3df5f4ad6fa3257dabdbfab9ac413ae33e376759b487066297b01520
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 document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of file typically uses social engineering within the document to trick the user into enabling macros, which then download and execute the Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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