Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98faaf9950720809…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 841956d0e24cd78b32eadac0b4675bbc SHA-1: 6110f0d5d69952dde39f269b61f88f431c4f2454 SHA-256: 98faaf9950720809103816126fb03fd50a7b11db375b3da9c7f9e1e23f477140
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 it's a Qbot dropper. The document's purpose is to deliver this known banking trojan.

Heuristics 1

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