Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cc177e5bf4f586d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 15fd35e729b54f1390bdc4d48dc933ed SHA-1: c68728130251b5697abc92bec07812b178074012 SHA-256: 8cc177e5bf4f586d743ca78589e8092d9bafd3124b07073376ad4f4dae5aa071
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. As an Excel file, it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run a secondary payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, with the spreadsheet serving as the initial lure.

Heuristics 1

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