Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9559386584dad81…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 335f83e9a928aca754ba523c084b13d5 SHA-1: 88756df609f1af9362865113474cf9a2e67b0b49 SHA-256: a9559386584dad81a2c5923cc82c1ffc7bcf620e47d9d81cf2731b9c7e28b251
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a payload. While no specific scripts or document body content were provided, the heuristic detection is sufficient to infer the malicious intent and delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 1

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