Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a96929d4efa1168a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0e51067fc2879031229b92fb4c37e5ed SHA-1: 408a97c431b3c2ede5f5569dfc8d2c9ca099474e SHA-256: a96929d4efa1168aa6bea366b44dad9a33e1633f846a62d79aa2765881139fc9
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 suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. While no VBA macros or document body text were extracted, the heuristic firing indicates the file's malicious intent is to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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