Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b98d93eaaa0007a6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 939421123a6acb785129dacfaac74d36 SHA-1: 63e1a9456ebf040b7fb5393fb400f7307be84576 SHA-256: b98d93eaaa0007a6e3b34418db91362a857d2bf7ecedc9c3bd772d396004db58
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 indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, to initiate 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