Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90552c8964c007d5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ccd842153a88574771bb43c1bee70a80 SHA-1: e4679dd10f99e78f5d68f632ea9c1877e558c9bb SHA-256: 90552c8964c007d5d462985b3971f9d2477e3b41c79b2dc7a162e2e01dcd23f8
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's a Qbot dropper. While no specific IOCs like URLs or scripts were extracted, the detection signature itself is sufficient to attribute it to the Qbot family and infer its role as a downloader.

Heuristics 1

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