Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 feae4f156c39fdf1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a94f491146c8c8ea82db1b6e2c941085 SHA-1: 0a873693dcc40005e86c7bcae8f32aada63135c3 SHA-256: feae4f156c39fdf1ff06831ab908da30b741a146d346190e823b68a7cad286fb
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution 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 belongs to the Qbot family and functions as a dropper. Its primary purpose is likely to download and execute a further stage malware payload onto the victim's system.

Heuristics 1

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