Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc8d7f67ff233e98…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5b4bd368e3176a22fe85199c46e1c622 SHA-1: 19e99e0782bb320620bdf3c48d455cdb2e2ba404 SHA-256: cc8d7f67ff233e98cda8a49b891829e644679e32b796dcb085a4fbf1c67aa62d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel spreadsheet. The critical ClamAV heuristic firing, 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggests this file is a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, characteristic of Qbot's initial infection vector.

Heuristics 1

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