Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86fa087e927a8196…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9e6d710a10d19781275d05f159de4f8f SHA-1: 113878e6c618963e929be38d89da7e5b4759168c SHA-256: 86fa087e927a819667ab29d3ccb8ba47556d9c9f9155e1ba2a4895d8bd9e5fcc
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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