Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6aec0cd9371c5b8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b8cd3c622696f780c50b6ded5c1d9307 SHA-1: fd09d6b18758ee69559e52334fd443ef10577365 SHA-256: e6aec0cd9371c5b8be327d4b454b7ffa7b6145a312fa33b9fdde87ccf42e29c3
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel spreadsheet. The ClamAV heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family dropper. The file's purpose is to execute macros, which are a common method for Qbot to download and execute its secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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