Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ce9acefe011359e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e6896e852265d45177fd36e0daa8ccf3 SHA-1: 67a3c058adc886c16a49cdc851cf543966fdd13b SHA-256: 8ce9acefe011359eb6f46089975cc80e101f3c557c1a0843cc2a0797e852e81a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The ClamAV heuristic firing strongly suggests this Excel file is a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The file's metadata indicates it is an Office document, consistent with common Qbot delivery methods. The detection name itself points to Qbot and a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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