Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd9b1f4456d98bbf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 13751bfd385806f6fde9faca2cb469e1 SHA-1: 33e2508c960e326f887f5d0cd97a6495d020267b SHA-256: cd9b1f4456d98bbf02025cbd84bbb2e2806c0a9f49b8fad1dea9af8389b3884d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious File

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically names it as a Qbot dropper, indicating its purpose is to download and execute a Qbot payload. This suggests a phishing attack vector where the user is tricked into opening the malicious attachment.

Heuristics 1

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