Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a11e4b00c8c0b31a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9e31a9ce68291bde437ec5d2d44f4389 SHA-1: 4b24f6130ae048c1b7ed52b685b77c8a209c2343 SHA-256: a11e4b00c8c0b31ad355a0f3a2e4a1709fa7202066c902b4a67e7c679f8ad3af
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The document's metadata shows it was created in 2006, which is unusual for modern Qbot campaigns but does not preclude its use as a loader. The primary heuristic firing directly attributes the file to a known Qbot variant.

Heuristics 1

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