Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ab622804b1ffbba…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fef8739d201cecb361d144188152d7cc SHA-1: cb49e6c8565979e8936502df2fe446a364c4f74f SHA-256: 9ab622804b1ffbba272067410046ee0873bde1b704a6e32acbdb67ee3ef73a93
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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 suggesting it is a Qbot dropper. This type of file typically uses social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then download and execute the main Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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