Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9040a5d372d97599…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9736218955c9fcfb26da11f948b04b74 SHA-1: 645465d342a7ef29b6795b570a65b5391c3a485f SHA-256: 9040a5d372d9759983017dbbf77938b0fca66e7b6cc6a1a347f35ff259205679
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The ClamAV heuristic identifies this XLSX file as a dropper for Qbot malware. This suggests the file's primary purpose is to download and execute further malicious stages. The specific variant name 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0' strongly indicates a Qbot family infection vector.

Heuristics 1

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