Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f6205f05f864751…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8ff1caf18ef99a0500ccbcd89ca31e24 SHA-1: a4df9bd997dde5d4260a4c422befb24d5fab49b4 SHA-256: 8f6205f05f864751d88d129c33938e0f621bfebcd4c76002b0979afdf25bb00d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating Qbot family malware. The heuristic suggests it functions as a dropper, likely employing macro-based execution to download and execute a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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