Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dcac3c2fa343354…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b61dbd13d35563a29c58d892ca24eff0 SHA-1: 7a0a26fd978e204ad27cbbc71f26c4a32b4ba1e1 SHA-256: 9dcac3c2fa34335437f6b9ef1aaf129bb953f5e4ea2f86a0480a7a77f5d530eb
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