Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c50134a9fabe05b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c5f402481276db2798bc4efd7b4824f3 SHA-1: 020b22da27e486eaae7a352c760a4a0ef6dcf773 SHA-256: 8c50134a9fabe05beff24591d4ffb9d298ab980f260e955367b74fed902fba93
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The detection name implies the use of macro-based execution within an Excel document to achieve this. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to convince the user to enable macros.

Heuristics 1

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