Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8420ac2624ba48b8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 00618d0be041eef837783ca3e110d4ba SHA-1: d0a56daf8a7cdd76d0afb9cc200234a54fa86a2c SHA-256: 8420ac2624ba48b8435fc81981477b4e97bee43c99017f2f3ebeda36830cb607
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes embedded malicious code to download and run a further stage payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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