Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2b8d0697a90fda0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4e293708913171634d3fd5a85d791fe5 SHA-1: b48b8dcc165c75fc789bba8ac6cc63bc25ff19db SHA-256: b2b8d0697a90fda079e7aedbdc1ee7a1fef83adff092f5a2d6f689117ec48541
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 names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting a Qbot family infection. This type of document typically uses social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then download and execute the Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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