Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89ef1044e2406d65…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ee68e4658a3128095edaaf9205a7e9c1 SHA-1: 0e110c3ddd92310f8c0c8c113a54e8f0bc17ab7a SHA-256: 89ef1044e2406d659fa1024a00903530fb191b8c380e490efedd4cb1f6f2ceca
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 functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The document's purpose is to initiate the download and execution of this secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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