Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ced3067b40c18c4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 42328f310971c1498826e1230fb8c263 SHA-1: 526d02cdd6ad9dcfafe264abcd3eb5424770e66b SHA-256: 9ced3067b40c18c4cbe91b898d811a66f0055b814faa4dba78aac76b29c70d95
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 act as a dropper. While no specific VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic indicates the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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