Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a429ecfb0ec38ac…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 70def3d9abfb0c371d2f08b047fd61d5 SHA-1: 813eb94855f456281c83b450af067b254340f81a SHA-256: 8a429ecfb0ec38ac21bd9c0ff9ff66560e758ab479c037f92a812b02b2682bae
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, which then executes embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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

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