Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c5856490d20e506…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6b73a30f83740404ddc5d3adb2194cfb SHA-1: 8ce228258619608d64fbf2db014b15a981931c79 SHA-256: 8c5856490d20e506fcfc79c49bc4ab313c40ee40bbf8780beaea6cbb6801eb1a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to deliver a payload. The critical heuristic firing confirms its malicious nature and dropper functionality. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the ClamAV signature is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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