Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6e44defdb6ed2ad…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8de2cb5a11fe01ae05602fd2f7f1acab SHA-1: 3bf39c4887ebe993399daab4016fa8309f6a41ea SHA-256: a6e44defdb6ed2adc73b45242a6578224b287d71f520f6b716877f85d3fb4e74
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 flags it as a Qbot dropper, indicating its purpose is to download and execute the Qbot malware. This suggests a spearphishing attack vector where the user is tricked into opening the malicious attachment.

Heuristics 1

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