Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af7b28ad86aee624…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 38ed7e1d0972a2a603a93d3c1b77abb9 SHA-1: 73aa0329923a20ed110bf1846254fcba61475530 SHA-256: af7b28ad86aee6249888cb7e5e74d63e9ac1790208425c43aa1c7c82f6b769b1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically detected it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary payload, characteristic of Qbot's typical infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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