Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87a944160604346b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 81372255b481636ea3dbfb7f5b66f890 SHA-1: 25c61cd2b76cbe1885d4deb2d0f7ad234a9321ff SHA-256: 87a944160604346b72d959c39bbdb380c3cd49c4956bf66bbca01855086e75f5
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 variant used for dropping secondary payloads. The detection name suggests it leverages macro-based execution within an Excel document to achieve its malicious objectives. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods involving spearphishing attachments.

Heuristics 1

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