Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9621a0d3f53411c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 43d0d1d146963e789ef725bec92e369b SHA-1: 358308fc99cbba5ded8cbe84da419a40aa869715 SHA-256: a9621a0d3f53411cb48bfd9ef5db21ae42cc900c797944688791416728030aa1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The Excel format indicates a likely phishing lure to enable macros, which would then facilitate the download and execution of the malicious content.

Heuristics 1

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