Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b869bd424a7b7f5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 68496398ea8408e00d3afb61bf124850 SHA-1: f253236ee61b4f7853290ac3afd2f8f1c5580430 SHA-256: 4b869bd424a7b7f548fa1547d08c87710cd4170bde77b7242a9e2a147b90b532
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's a Qbot dropper. 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