Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9d8084a9bcec4ad…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f8ce0c99df94586c014ea71be4e6277c SHA-1: 930de058406d2340f162a8df36088a56b2b23112 SHA-256: e9d8084a9bcec4ad61f3c5898172d7a543f07d80fa4f8a81f521f00df2aca725
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 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 specific VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic firing indicates the presence of malicious code within the Excel document, likely intended to download and execute a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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