Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ece2df3b8b021527…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7440a62bdb1454b7837d8f6b0df96c14 SHA-1: ae69b86b6fd28aef1c35316b9ec62293dc70f79a SHA-256: ece2df3b8b021527734ddc8f56097c416c60f56a46e4d207705b6b2dc16d48bd
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 document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a secondary payload. The file's structure and detection name suggest it leverages macro execution to achieve this.

Heuristics 1

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