Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b32bcb597034d07…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8f684ba646dfdd53cdb60b425b718304 SHA-1: 6e012a3f06031a098cb73dbe7cb1313e85411399 SHA-256: 9b32bcb597034d07060e8804888792db8785856376da9d2b01d5280b987e2ae6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop additional malware. The detection name implies it's a dropper, likely using macro-based execution within the Excel file to achieve its objective. No VBA scripts or document body text were extracted, but the heuristic firing is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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