Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ff9b2a60a9bf0c2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a8b3d026f47cbb5601e520d61d8e8e75 SHA-1: 33e0cd085af45b31524278ff652dddf8501ac532 SHA-256: 9ff9b2a60a9bf0c23639e5ae5322feaef60fcf425773d13068da3db0dee90f39
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 provided, the heuristic indicates the file's primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel document.

Heuristics 1

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