Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c0d5bb771d6e8c2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4e2b497693b84c8e7bc7824331e860ce SHA-1: 92a77aadaf71df4628c930acec00af8d3ca39927 SHA-256: 8c0d5bb771d6e8c22ec0258d9dcf501daf7a30919aebafcb946924184ef58e29
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', a known Qbot variant. This indicates the Excel file's primary purpose is to act as a dropper for a malicious payload. The detection signature suggests it is designed to exploit user interaction to execute further stages of the attack.

Heuristics 1

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