Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21df8e0842505709…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0dc247078762aa17b21b699bb644392c SHA-1: 00cd3dbe0e4d9c8579877491c46c1121b5537119 SHA-256: 21df8e08425057095ae833a77c6555c5593ff03fef5339ee86730f1686e8ed1c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper, indicating its purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The heuristic firing strongly suggests a malicious intent, likely involving social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros or opening the malicious content.

Heuristics 1

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