Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef4f98bc01b1b7bf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 84ac69abf64bb130c3c0f3aec6f1cef7 SHA-1: c9fbc22e6b4fbdc16e5092b1b9ca5ca4f7c9ccf2 SHA-256: ef4f98bc01b1b7bfbd3b530317c2b0bcd01d61027ddbb6c5d84a93928c1b6027
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to download and execute the Qbot malware. The specific ClamAV detection name provides strong evidence for the family and attack pattern.

Heuristics 1

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