Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 790e2e9e30bc503f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9ea53a44f0f86dd6d6f4fe933d6bc0c4 SHA-1: 0158b2f47e9348b021f764a356fc817051245c54 SHA-256: 790e2e9e30bc503fc5bd7e3656f61a0c86582691c462601f2981682c8bcfa10d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as an Excel spreadsheet with a critical ClamAV heuristic firing for 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0'. This strongly suggests the file is a Qbot dropper, designed to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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