Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c8c0463d27eba5f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ee6057568b811da2e2c6e2a4084864e2 SHA-1: 1bd0a17bc16a7920c45e01a4eafbcfdd11ed1c2d SHA-256: 1c8c0463d27eba5fd127fe00f639832ec8556d499be97fbfa32ca9241786d82a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 85%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. While no specific VBA or JavaScript was extracted, the heuristic firing is sufficient to attribute it to the Qbot family and a phishing attack vector. Further analysis would be required to determine the exact delivery mechanism and payload.

Heuristics 1

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