Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8822204bb6fe3831…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5bb774b535cb9ff9fd1b70d505afc348 SHA-1: 6a4517e3fa96484fc198d9773ac868cac1a791e2 SHA-256: 8822204bb6fe383137e09634fd6042f0a88ee9b508ff3b959b973deca0dbf17b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics indicates the likely attack vector involves social engineering to enable macros, which would then execute the dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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