Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c971f0484b0ea909…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 81a0d6ee194295f90b5c437e124fa970 SHA-1: 73c51b50fa248f8792df8ad6934bf8614c720830 SHA-256: c971f0484b0ea90974e8cc517e267675f2e3008472f1836e38ecf7ca500d3802
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as an Excel spreadsheet with a critical ClamAV heuristic firing for 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0'. This strongly suggests the file is a Qbot dropper, designed to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator of compromise.

Heuristics 1

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