Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a08d9d49784dffb8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5f89aa393377802e0c3e826137514f75 SHA-1: f98d0ec81d02385f81ba41854025b671e72a808f SHA-256: a08d9d49784dffb8126f298ac4e4dea0d35baa844f516b4f39927b99d6857311
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. As an Excel document, it likely relies on social engineering or user interaction to execute its malicious functions, fitting the pattern of spearphishing attachments.

Heuristics 1

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