Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb98dd431eb821ac…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6f8052bc33348fab23b618c954cc237f SHA-1: 5907922dfd13479f5c587ad257f8e3dbb23ee7b3 SHA-256: cb98dd431eb821acd4b78d25e36419678d8d82b682709c9140f39ed1df491433
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1566 Phishing

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a malicious payload. The file's nature as an Excel document further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector to trick users into opening it. No specific download URLs or scripts were extracted, but the detection name implies a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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