Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89839e4e99fb53e0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b7234df95265c726dcd4ef56c3a9e25f SHA-1: a0a78bbc5e06dcfd986024b4a7a2324a1cdf955c SHA-256: 89839e4e99fb53e008bc17e2549f05befef6b25f3dec70d47efbe26c05a837b6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious Excel document by ClamAV, specifically flagged as a Qbot dropper. This indicates the primary function is to download and execute a secondary payload, likely Qbot malware. The detection signature suggests a common attack pattern involving macro-enabled documents used for initial infection.

Heuristics 1

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