Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a9dec5f88c44d78…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 693651483a3d428ca6047c7f15964ce4 SHA-1: 40f2f9e9588aaffd0cc6fbfc4c9f922deb703a1a SHA-256: 8a9dec5f88c44d78d59fb549fb058900c04a338365cc170f6a5661054f8cd819
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this Excel file as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu, strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to deliver and execute a secondary payload. The presence of the SHA256 hash serves as a primary indicator for this malicious artifact.

Heuristics 1

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