Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8044d6c1a981c5dc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ea985ddb491a041eaaaf0a0cd45cb1c8 SHA-1: f9ef79b1f431b5160a1d88b43625c895c627d720 SHA-256: 8044d6c1a981c5dc46f7ccca2e1e2851cce378777b28bb067035227d025db1ae
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 85%

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 it's a Qbot dropper. The document's purpose is to download and execute a Qbot payload on 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