Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c08a186739dba02…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bf17f6353184a436edd17d40491f4595 SHA-1: 8493c77ae7f76c34e6d50c3a7c3b097d6b18affd SHA-256: 8c08a186739dba028cbef29dbdfc0068f2be3aaa3ca7291c52acd095ca2875f5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family dropper. The document's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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