Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9422ff68d1040dd7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8c05f2fbc24dde7971362462b113067f SHA-1: 132948d0fc92c6155b8659df0358f9ca3a5c45aa SHA-256: 9422ff68d1040dd75cc31d62f38fcf846d3a3b9df99b7046e4df1b011d624c95
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves delivering a malicious payload via a Microsoft Excel document, likely through social engineering tactics such as spearphishing attachments. The heuristic firing suggests the presence of malicious code within the document, intended to download and execute a secondary stage.

Heuristics 1

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