Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8256daf637aeb472…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: de644d2382041f4e8f0a951fea9262df SHA-1: 953ae1c09378cb2689c56f4b0877943d8c2e3c75 SHA-256: 8256daf637aeb472825b5fd3006f5a3482bd3ed6af3b6bab5540844dda92cece
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file that likely executes embedded code to download and run a further stage payload. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is highly indicative of Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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

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