Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c8d527547062ae6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 769722e223be11a47787c3558a34df5e SHA-1: 103c02146f912d59219fda65420c31ac6dace1a9 SHA-256: 1c8d527547062ae636d8913ab85140ed594cec9f1a1aff62bebd1668658b005a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical heuristic firing by ClamAV directly identifies the file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting a Qbot family dropper. The file type is an Excel spreadsheet, a common delivery mechanism for macro-based malware. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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