Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88957f478a7f31b5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4564e29ebf3ff103325364894d81009e SHA-1: 6b008c2322fbb58fe43744fb259278a1fb0390d6 SHA-256: 88957f478a7f31b58a24f2d76183472a7da7ab10469cc6c8ac8f4a8ce708fef7
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 names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, characteristic of Qbot's typical infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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