Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 829b2111c162687f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8ddd548b5868193e6a253f0224c2de03 SHA-1: 76e3b1aa57fe63722e75b5f0fa3dd0406902574a SHA-256: 829b2111c162687f494657070e3d8682707ea8c674258eadb971f82d2db4448a
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 flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick users 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