Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e6674cfab500f46…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fba522e890d87f6e6b3be6d7f1f4a3b8 SHA-1: 989e3a31063a892bc30da4bf6a30ef6188747f99 SHA-256: 8e6674cfab500f46eba14b0aaf8cafa59a3ede4f2395a95495d809e7d8241016
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests the Excel file likely contains VBA code to initiate the download and execution process, consistent with Qbot's typical delivery methods.

Heuristics 1

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