Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf65798fcc4ab024…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8d9f36caf4ce1cfc307cc1be8974c61e SHA-1: 41f714679f9589f8afa56bfb857f9b31d5b58cbd SHA-256: cf65798fcc4ab024c823b1b32e62a7ae1f0bfbac574516588e7b30da8a68eb7e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 85%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The document'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