Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3353ab7c934becd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f2713297494b46248d61b6714ae8ffff SHA-1: e4264c3a88afc0c46458753c9a4566fd32ddf865 SHA-256: a3353ab7c934becdb70efb58ab353a026e71b3e7dae1ed17af27c15c3da0c793
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its role as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. While no VBA macros or document body text were extracted, the heuristic firing is sufficient to infer a malicious intent to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 1

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