Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b94e9ed1f41e5d5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d521f73264112b129171a178eb2f372f SHA-1: 8fa5ef0275c51232daff0396d8c6cb54f0a4475d SHA-256: 8b94e9ed1f41e5d5e29126d989ca8d73f4100a238945d3f67c16785afd1beef8
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 functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of Qbot indicators suggests a focus on information theft and potentially further network compromise.

Heuristics 1

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