Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6be8d96302f08d4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0f8956d8fac745721fc8ec5bc5910c17 SHA-1: ea977eaba4cb8a3db93f2bd53551a38a00f735af SHA-256: b6be8d96302f08d4e9950449e93920a19184dcabef8d257e7cae4aea71fc4a71
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 flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically lures users into enabling macros to download and execute the main Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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