Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88e4f3d8a5b2ef76…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5f1d2b2c16e0bee81b1fe895c4be1f90 SHA-1: 71a2290d7a22953f5c831fac48b258e9b0b6679c SHA-256: 88e4f3d8a5b2ef764e1367b82e1395e65708daf4c18d76b80926b6654d6de5ec
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', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function of such documents is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely for further network compromise or data theft. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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