Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97418f1e885ca74f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 70eb6515558caa32d3e565ab327d3bf5 SHA-1: 53dde3516ba435e1b7f8c7127a7b35b0a2510a9c SHA-256: 97418f1e885ca74fcba65310fca08ac617e16b778a502cd771ac5f11cbdbf5f0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. Such documents are typically used to lure users into enabling macros, which then download and execute the Qbot malware. The specific variant name suggests a known Qbot distribution method.

Heuristics 1

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