Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a5c3a03323a817b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 918dd2c732f3aa2af62600f9c9957b9c SHA-1: 194aff75545a64e7be8a8ac09da0bfd467d0335d SHA-256: 8a5c3a03323a817b94d0b1504555071180e9fa013c03e2ea8383e2412a4f861d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel spreadsheet. The ClamAV heuristic specifically names it as a Qbot dropper, indicating its purpose is to deliver the Qbot banking trojan. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic is highly indicative of the attack pattern.

Heuristics 1

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