Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fca0561e5d2e4f2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d148bdba71e13ef021edf03adbad2c7c SHA-1: 8e7bd30eaf2040149b46669339c204742a995734 SHA-256: 8fca0561e5d2e4f2f3f92f12546326f7d5478ca13761c11a2af64cbf9e7f4e18
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant. The primary function of such documents is to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. The heuristic firing indicates a dropper functionality, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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