Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ce986331c653554…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4a30693178d20ea6b2e19ca86d1d656f SHA-1: e30cd7dd3f4de0bde5be5cd5b85dd4aebaab2a0e SHA-256: 9ce986331c6535544145c7306ca8cb6c898aeeec78b6f5e9c9e36b298c9386ea
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 indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a payload. While no specific scripts or document body were extracted, the heuristic detection is sufficient to infer its malicious intent as a downloader.

Heuristics 1

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