Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 856b428527749f6b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0669bdbc54bb9652ad9352f196c1380f SHA-1: cd2ac8b8bfb227e4f5ba268146d0407635f9f055 SHA-256: 856b428527749f6b81b3ada8d578386af9df7eb78ef252fa47db264c53b3f01a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a payload. While no specific IOCs like URLs or hashes were extracted, the heuristic detection is highly indicative of a malicious dropper.

Heuristics 1

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