Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a7bfe58e6874dda…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 27b0498e1cdf5e39d24340c5efc53d42 SHA-1: 6245a75d812c8454863ee296c12cb24f759867da SHA-256: 8a7bfe58e6874dda149e2ecbfc4737c04ae567c323ebc0e60f75900d8d123b3d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to drop further malicious content. The detection name suggests it's a macro-enabled document (Xls.Dropper) and likely part of the Qbot family. The primary attack vector is expected to be social engineering to enable macros, leading to the execution of a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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