Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98ae5badc52e7c45…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 384f80c20a9b7bf8e4a4952a476c01d0 SHA-1: 100f029219bd3f2aac148a9d39057e3d5b3c7db5 SHA-256: 98ae5badc52e7c45a29588db16fc97a73868787bb6b1c01b6a4992093ae6c121
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, a known Qbot variant. This indicates the Excel file likely contains malicious macros intended to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior. The detection signature strongly suggests a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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