Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ccf6faca3ecda67…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5b94111b859ba5c212f4262dbabf4da8 SHA-1: c035f82e18a0957970d479821b9fa74e8f2008fc SHA-256: 8ccf6faca3ecda670cc765ce60509016eadb72254f0291785dd9efc0fc6a2620
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', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to deliver a payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the payload execution.

Heuristics 1

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