Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f65a96be99138cda…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 048769db1d8e4459740a4ca2844667a0 SHA-1: d634c89ebf83ff95856c2aec8a823b215fc96227 SHA-256: f65a96be99138cdabf11a46a0109c84f944febd9de7d1a3ffa5e23f35dfba30c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it acts as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The detection name implies it is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firing is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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