Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d130fdcdfbb2d178…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 546fdb4de97801fa575aa54d8c6d6a13 SHA-1: 121ef81fb9cf1d8df09265c79870a19f738c0a1c SHA-256: d130fdcdfbb2d178befe15a25496a95230a35827691666f125052c820537ba42
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its nature as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The detection name suggests it's an Excel document (Xls) used to drop (Dropper) a malicious payload. While no specific scripts or document body were provided, the heuristic firing is sufficient to infer a malicious intent to download and execute a secondary stage.

Heuristics 1

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