Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 decc198e07228f4d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 57a9fd116dab089a0312f98091bf6fa9 SHA-1: 070428b02a4c528cef3f19b80408e77c69253b43 SHA-256: decc198e07228f4dffc93264c92c68c23bc3b213443cc50552cf77f91dab40c2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel spreadsheet. The CLAMAV_DETECTION heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the detection name itself is sufficient evidence of its malicious intent as a dropper.

Heuristics 1

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