Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 878bd32b4c92a865…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 33e09d5d769c85c836c6fcb7012dee55 SHA-1: 83dda5f6f9fd53dc9500a4727939cbcab4f5764e SHA-256: 878bd32b4c92a86500529d4bfeab4aff426c324ee8cd9a11e5619ecd184c4d94
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. While no VBA or scripts were explicitly extracted, the detection name implies the Excel file contains malicious code intended to download and execute a further stage. This is consistent 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