Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86c9a5a040a86bef…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 047b3c5f699ea36bb1c5c109e3cb0d27 SHA-1: c2fb1e8fcc709dcad13711b67aecce9ec4a80f75 SHA-256: 86c9a5a040a86befbea9d1b18fa8fbd01f784d6a3e1db9e658d8256d31873f8e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file that then executes a secondary payload. No scripts or document body were extracted, but the ClamAV signature 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