Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88eaf249eedc84d4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7b16ba015f99db351750a0d2e0af63da SHA-1: cff6a5401022efbc2eccf9d50aac505855ff1a53 SHA-256: 88eaf249eedc84d403c62516f6511a5385e41d1b7eed294af6f590ee29f5e842
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious Code

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution or exploits to achieve this. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator of compromise.

Heuristics 1

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