Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8474ff34ccb0fe50…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0a042a688731e548d559b1f6c258d351 SHA-1: 031472d591fd22baf21ebc0b630fc864f45c44fd SHA-256: 8474ff34ccb0fe502bbd7c3474ad6ebeda5e317031fcfe0fcc82fd59ef84d560
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper, indicating its purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The detection name 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0' strongly suggests Qbot family attribution and a dropper functionality. This points to a spearphishing attachment attack pattern aiming to deliver Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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