Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8551d037b59557c8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7ed857e5a027fb6ecac0abbeadd51220 SHA-1: e030b2562e66f741b5b15887e48be8faa7183287 SHA-256: 8551d037b59557c843d04d82140fc8f8d057a8265b7b9e13fa112140df5ddad8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically uses macros to download and execute a secondary payload, aligning with the Ingress Tool Transfer technique. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Heuristics 1

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