Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c928f25592830df…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 225131d6c223541f70ee4846b942203b SHA-1: f19c10d50dac2b520144ed3fc77e0f0b6ff65e50 SHA-256: 8c928f25592830df2b64f9e05d57878c2aea0fac97999357fffb6c48573e3956
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to deliver a malicious payload. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes the embedded malware. No specific scripts or document body content were extracted, but the heuristic detection is highly reliable for this family.

Heuristics 1

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