Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f9040ea70c3e7c9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ab5e631720d0ec6655ae666fda34ab37 SHA-1: d28398754f3ea002df17d07c9613373c5667fbd1 SHA-256: 8f9040ea70c3e7c9383cf42de41996e113dcb481c1e6004696ed14c09dc5e97c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically detected it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, characteristic of Qbot's distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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