Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88d2aa9dc3e45d02…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 515479c83a188121ba5bcc9a76249443 SHA-1: 4150490b51e4f37a72bccc77fe13617e4046a9a7 SHA-256: 88d2aa9dc3e45d023bddd23a1f8b3cda694409ad3a91bf4046ff7ddc73852ca7
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 suggesting a Qbot family infection. This type of document typically uses social engineering to trick the user 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