Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a8b4861788cf8e8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fbf4e7086eb24bd99692436f7e6a5d92 SHA-1: 1d9f061046a270eebb92e70abb29654527ef310f SHA-256: 9a8b4861788cf8e837ef8a4da3db7febc28bebec6552cc415a6c42a6fe1c3b46
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution 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 suggesting it belongs to the Qbot family and functions as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves tricking a user into opening the malicious document, which then likely executes a payload to download further malware.

Heuristics 1

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