Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7c2f1667044e998…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 17265b2206d9b765e0be3e2645d08f4a SHA-1: 4a94d319c125072a2598369dbf00355e9a04fd6f SHA-256: c7c2f1667044e9980bd6b88f8bb68486582b7f443798919042de8587ebc678f0
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_DETECTION heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose 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