Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6cb962d4f4dd01e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2920f66541c1b075c86a8a9368fc5f59 SHA-1: 42f395f9170ba4c0a06df7004638cc0346a88ac6 SHA-256: a6cb962d4f4dd01ef9066a2402b84bd923c9e4e568ccedea15eb1091204c68c2
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 indicating its nature as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The detection signature suggests it's designed to download and execute a secondary payload, fitting the typical behavior of Qbot droppers. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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