Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a79e8ec15fdf0ce…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 19db74aea6517bb2dbce4655ccaf3a83 SHA-1: 8b60811a94c1b48de308b6500281615841258a81 SHA-256: 4a79e8ec15fdf0cede794f825dde44c451e19153b332d9aade20f726fae5330d
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 a Qbot family infection. This type of document typically uses social engineering 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