Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e946d9d298e87a3d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a19cb1ecdcf7d0257654616aaa748cad SHA-1: 978052f188e2bbd4029138b9aa4730db985172d1 SHA-256: e946d9d298e87a3dbf465c7e4bcff1b943dff87229979effec855d7436c9e66c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this XLSX file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop additional malicious payloads. The file's metadata indicates it is an older Excel document, potentially used as a lure. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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