Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c98f02361126697…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 40b80409d32a0cb845bddcaf30d6c55b SHA-1: 51c5bedadd25e69ae223c8b9de6aa4aa9a7a4333 SHA-256: 8c98f02361126697041d078c8e05f6150d56ef339dd9555d03c00a600e64c2c2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', a known Qbot dropper variant. This indicates the Excel file's primary purpose is to download and execute a Qbot malware payload on the victim's system. The high confidence is based on the specific ClamAV detection name.

Heuristics 1

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