Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ca9c201639d02e6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7a3d2f81cbdab4adec206fb385663a09 SHA-1: 1fff083b4df4e4531ecb163177d259129e90ab8f SHA-256: 9ca9c201639d02e65b740e02aecb70861c0445d594ae492e154df01a3eeea73a
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.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically uses social engineering to trick the user 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