Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a860513923640bc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 33b1b35479c3a218a1ebdf8a85137235 SHA-1: baba3ae3f39f6d79dc76c8b69c64fc6c5323f8fd SHA-256: 8a860513923640bc9ca5bbbdb08e407a0ca26960a405cfd6575a880a6864ed92
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The heuristic firing suggests the document's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the ClamAV signature is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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