Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dfe6dc3150e413d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 593de790d655496122de370f35cf3268 SHA-1: 3885b1ca8f533a23167834d40643f787266c78df SHA-256: 9dfe6dc3150e413d55e7e3988645b0ec990878b44ba8a000e21b7f3f55bcd5e8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The Excel format indicates a likely social engineering lure to enable macros, which would then execute the dropper functionality. 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