Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56e9dd09f3876984…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1861669811ab1c4c0b682464f4a10fc1 SHA-1: 6934b84861ffdd7243e7e3f6ca2daae98ae611f6 SHA-256: 56e9dd09f387698485cf1a1b6f75d15ab8948b4b404055fdda420ceacea3efb5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 85%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The critical ClamAV heuristic specifically detected it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, characteristic of Qbot's typical infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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