Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed8871677713d857…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d21fd9616c15d722cfafa4ce0ca14b0b SHA-1: 2c979caab291c6d640ab7391ecfe087daa8e09a1 SHA-256: ed8871677713d857b05bad40f6a087f1b2b37f818d47da5376ac2dafc1e010d8
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 names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it's a Qbot variant designed to drop further malicious payloads. The file's metadata indicates it's an older Excel file, but its detection as a dropper points to a delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 1

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