Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 980ee4694fcae95d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4655085b0f0e2ec7faacd93c1b888ee4 SHA-1: 7c1d1dd5b1bc39f25c10b1ecb3ba782ff3ed12b6 SHA-256: 980ee4694fcae95d0bd9a1d38443e9d269fd62072f4549725544f2cf98d32a99
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', strongly indicating a Qbot family infection. The document's purpose is likely to act as a dropper for a Qbot payload, leveraging social engineering to trick the user into opening it.

Heuristics 1

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