Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bc2dbf978b94255…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e4ea7f5cabb841d748537b2cf1696f19 SHA-1: 3aa4512df578a04ed7308ee61286a920b54e8d08 SHA-256: 8bc2dbf978b9425572b154e1605aadfbd4e53d514274c2754bd118dfb355c450
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant. As an Excel document, it likely relies on social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then execute the Qbot payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing.

Heuristics 1

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