Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ff3ad3bd06dd21b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c1e8eba8a663af5e9734a67c1f26c658 SHA-1: 11f45b74c6b8bc5644d2d514b9e159ef83e0f0bc SHA-256: 8ff3ad3bd06dd21b0fd739158cda2c5f1eae59061eb11d1351773b39f6b407fb
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, characteristic of Qbot's typical infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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