Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a4ea34393e05e9e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8c462001d5ec63c9e99bf866a703f67c SHA-1: 1c0d942ad0cf997b437658678a8e233a46e24758 SHA-256: 9a4ea34393e05e9e8ab513b4cef8f983056c2fa78fcd0d9f99fa38af9afbef1c
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 names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family infection. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then download and execute the Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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