Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9492b8e6527c03f7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 029477311d816b781d5178f6a7f3b82e SHA-1: 94faa025224a32018dcc67918db341142fe29bd2 SHA-256: 9492b8e6527c03f7aa83a00d0369e2884325269602759e2164bb7bc473d8d6a9
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. The file's metadata suggests it was authored in 2006, which is consistent with Qbot's long history of operation.

Heuristics 1

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