Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9c995a782d0b4d9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5668ecf27a5f56e51cacbedea545fbd3 SHA-1: 79057fd63220bb7c62689f1874dbe4e1edafd8cc SHA-256: d9c995a782d0b4d9ee72c4b9ba20fc5958b6766ef72d10fb4851f3393db24e50
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical heuristic firing from ClamAV explicitly identifies the file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The file type is an Excel document, a common delivery mechanism for macro-enabled malware. The dropper functionality implies it will download and execute additional malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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