Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b1f9c8dc1142a9d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: db6beb55969a334ac1fde218579d418a SHA-1: 7b0a2d9e011060aaa97bf9604fd7a5465696c166 SHA-256: 8b1f9c8dc1142a9d76c0818bfd7e3f79cd0eb917fa2bbe708bfeddd5504b919f
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 is a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes the embedded malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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