Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b6c5ff72a662b12…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4f8990e68d0c6342157e39ec053d781e SHA-1: c238b757ce2ca713dc48f2e6287256daaefc26c5 SHA-256: 8b6c5ff72a662b129c68678c26518ecc9abef0a529e2d86dad4d817cc78691e2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 presence of macro-related heuristics suggests the document likely exploits macro execution to download and run a secondary malicious payload. This is a common delivery method for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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