Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bf9f8ed473cdf23…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 944e709a9aa058f0c3dcc633542eaf05 SHA-1: 44628c3b2b07e58aad74d4247c6ddde81f417408 SHA-256: 7bf9f8ed473cdf234a884d0f247ceaa8d670b857dc6ccf042b7a3f44990115b8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The primary function is to deliver and execute a secondary malicious payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper mechanism, likely involving macro execution to achieve this.

Heuristics 1

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