Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9d2c2f229e609d3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 506cc64107702a92f1f33e2d110ba19c SHA-1: df454a41771529e27215b3a177d638228d1a5034 SHA-256: b9d2c2f229e609d3e2cc4539f87a368eb713cba47c7b8ed6786786e4f48cd0f6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The critical ClamAV heuristic firing, 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggests this is a Qbot variant designed as a dropper. The file type (XLSX) and the heuristic name indicate it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run a secondary payload, a common Qbot delivery method.

Heuristics 1

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