Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6951cd8e219c8e3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4a718a4207fc8fc5d5d92ec95b943316 SHA-1: 1d6163dad06c27bade48fbb4d907ecb8a98c593f SHA-256: a6951cd8e219c8e3a111827065ad115cb22e2f22e079002681928df8bc0cf719
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The ClamAV heuristic explicitly identifies this file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The file is an Excel document, a common delivery mechanism for macro-based malware. The dropper functionality implies it will download and execute additional malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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