Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8f19c5755e31c4e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 145ab7f00921703ac965b2541dbab055 SHA-1: c2bc50c8cbfcb4c70da35f2e5fd2adaf58f7cd9c SHA-256: a8f19c5755e31c4efa4d973c33b04bea6ffb088c9c7c42fd2bd0b1da7d83520e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution or exploits to achieve this, fitting the pattern of a phishing attachment leading to further infection.

Heuristics 1

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