Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acdbdf3d154f3917…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e0a9fb7cac55db0118c45246a8301b57 SHA-1: 264779f7cf6af69ca2b95b0702277eb61777a38c SHA-256: acdbdf3d154f3917acb18e4fc607a56bc66de8a6e1cec1cb4fe512fa04fe3e93
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. While no VBA scripts or document body text were extracted, the heuristic detection itself is sufficient evidence to classify this as a malicious document likely used for initial access via spearphishing, leading to the execution of a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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