Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dab11f02e039287…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 517dcd45d80610c7c2616450959e9f1b SHA-1: b91f47534fd9f6e17fecc624d9b953fe8fb50e5b SHA-256: 8dab11f02e039287d3e9bf13d1bc1616817d45c5b7ce9b3289c38212b341fa54
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 functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user to open a malicious Excel file, which then executes a payload. While no specific script content was extracted, the heuristic firing is sufficient to infer its malicious intent as a downloader.

Heuristics 1

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