Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 979a1d471c0678d7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9877c50ccd35d91305bd045b5f7bd73d SHA-1: aa51401b5655a7a87f8e18046a0c903af5460e76 SHA-256: 979a1d471c0678d71b013a6bf45a88575adbf519870b71fbca7581ade8bd04d6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests it likely uses VBA to download and execute a secondary payload, a common Qbot delivery technique.

Heuristics 1

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