Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98e7eb596f8ae7c1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2b3f9c628d206d79e6fe8e9e4943b4e8 SHA-1: 44c4a49c7486dbf26b6fdd41f719326c455abe42 SHA-256: 98e7eb596f8ae7c12022156202db49ca343086926dc9d36afe25b83203f6e3bd
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The detection name suggests it's designed to download and execute a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot. The file's metadata and heuristics confirm its malicious nature.

Heuristics 1

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