Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98a18e4b8dd26d1a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2743cb4e50c6fd2fb66a93472622481c SHA-1: f46bcb87f9cf3ced4e69c4642af45898cc745903 SHA-256: 98a18e4b8dd26d1aacd2be9873d73456dbbadcabd42e1ecc1ae8eeb27670b101
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family dropper. The document's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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