Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9cc4bbf5286af19…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6d0a715bfcf3ce34c6f9d76f1a88067b SHA-1: c82709438fb3666b117e6ec152bcc1b42317ff51 SHA-256: e9cc4bbf5286af19c6ae892ab4445920c363631bfd4a2d86d3db09421ece3af6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. While no document body or scripts were extracted, the heuristic firing indicates the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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