Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a89120006a413805…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f594380458f34b3205d7ac894cfc521d SHA-1: 188e2fdace340d48df9ea4558a2aafebed171d60 SHA-256: a89120006a413805c039b23b53eca91b430dc085367b361e7d790a7ad48ba7ee
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0' strongly indicates this Excel file is a Qbot dropper. Such files are typically used to download and execute a second-stage payload, often leveraging macro execution to achieve this. The file's purpose is to deliver the Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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