Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f608eb196ec07cc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7f89300e4c317d02617a9ece5f5967db SHA-1: c792e7b4fe3fb4a56f3f87c3cabb64c9d02a4a36 SHA-256: 8f608eb196ec07cc303183cf29d7fdce9451fbc4b9625abfac11bd54d85a3b1c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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's a Qbot dropper. The primary attack pattern involves using a malicious Office document to initiate the infection chain, likely through social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros or opening a malicious link.

Heuristics 1

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