Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84eb3708d3dcd498…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a7612bd8d55ac76fe4466ecc3fd27454 SHA-1: c286f334bf936284388df7cdbf0799bd964eea9a SHA-256: 84eb3708d3dcd4986c5cc219ab68b556fe6ae565f86eb9a72b1ff8167b46c7b8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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 functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The heuristic firing suggests the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. This aligns with Qbot's typical distribution methods via malicious documents.

Heuristics 1

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