Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85920b693c13d827…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d476dbc4f3fcbda34a334f67a218061d SHA-1: 72a9450cb17ba37694587a8eab0776b280f54e19 SHA-256: 85920b693c13d827acb8983bc661eb249dbcabb4494b61430c1fa765d78e82d2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', a known Qbot variant. This heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to act as a dropper for a malicious payload, likely executed via macro or exploit. The presence of this specific detection name points towards Qbot's typical behavior of downloading and executing further stages.

Heuristics 1

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