Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fe8632dc459cd50…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: daaa3fdafdeee250715c94c12aa546ec SHA-1: 3c84cc0492277f748d312d1e50e03eae8148a7e8 SHA-256: 9fe8632dc459cd5081b9be01c3d6d45394b413190c689aa1ed7568f70c4232a3
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 detection name implies macro-based execution, a common technique for Qbot to initiate its infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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