Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9876818a04dde0dc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: efdae39b13ffe1d6bf10206b82cb4e9c SHA-1: 97fe0d2581e012f4ff27f8dbe0788a1d77279692 SHA-256: 9876818a04dde0dca4c5b7bab56b1da82a5ac6ed664410133b6f83a6fc217f53
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The detection name suggests it is an Excel document that downloads and executes a secondary payload. While no VBA or scripts were explicitly extracted, the dropper nature implies it leverages macro execution or other embedded mechanisms to achieve its malicious objective.

Heuristics 1

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