Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e8008c7f585a6f2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c957d71a1d2dca3a662774a2a4c43092 SHA-1: 09227e80bc1032c14a73d40bb9eda27ee994dd8e SHA-256: 8e8008c7f585a6f207c998ca67055575d34e72939fe65301dfa7e65a44a04b7a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious File

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family infection. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious attachment, which then likely executes a secondary payload. The heuristic firing directly points to its dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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