Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a16ff98f1a7eb410…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2fcca445b2153c9f0d15734f7b5d3109 SHA-1: 26e7af64e63e0fcc055d3c6b6f7115d84524e58e SHA-256: a16ff98f1a7eb41070955a727f22635c8a1432c38086bdc3fbf47276c3e69812
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family dropper. The document's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, characteristic of Qbot's typical infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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