Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8752de0f1e2d4e87…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 53246159aabb1c1a040d0cac1bf2faa7 SHA-1: c5ea12dcaedd5f11f0bc625918064f347eaed23a SHA-256: 8752de0f1e2d4e871f356571a94c0cd126114c06e5beac7446e258672b9bcae1
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 is a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel file to initiate the malicious chain. 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