Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f89074684545f253…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bcc4d98fbf042865aee8f99f14a8a1c2 SHA-1: adc39f35064a6691838c9c99694a2bc1a58fb7ce SHA-256: f89074684545f253b7af754278ffb64484ec118543565f2dae0527bfdf45a6ba
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the execution of a secondary payload. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the ClamAV signature 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