Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe9dfe2d53078016…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d126f2e042888c087c085298a1c13004 SHA-1: 982e5c787dec579a33b8e12bc42fc0986064fe22 SHA-256: fe9dfe2d53078016502c228b15f353bf6a8b5ec5a1d79a1b6a8f74ee24feeb58
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 dropper. This type of document typically uses social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then download and execute the Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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