Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d0589ee577eebbe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 00892b9188642adbd19cee9062e7ce53 SHA-1: 7024f594fbfe3ac910bf99d12795390f0024523b SHA-256: 8d0589ee577eebbebf993a2628a22687219ffb18dd12c8e1148fa0c67fea1d45
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 85%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The document's metadata suggests it was created in 2006, but the detection name points to a more recent variant. The primary function is likely to download and execute a Qbot payload upon opening.

Heuristics 1

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