Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 969aef489260b82e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ec6870c240a9a44be794ca3ff7b0fe7f SHA-1: df61d6824dd014409af52afe562ccad1e69daa7f SHA-256: 969aef489260b82e957a00ac8c4cf546cc0f6bc515f220dbe33f373202aa5585
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically uses social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then download and execute the Qbot malware. The detection name itself is a high-confidence indicator of the attack pattern and family.

Heuristics 1

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