Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acb08a1c378899b2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bfbc7594ac464b66ab337efe3f5f5a53 SHA-1: 894d5f5f5cfdaa26c63ef71271ff354f61d06062 SHA-256: acb08a1c378899b2c89c730c96aabac521bc40e037f190d8425add653eafad48
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. While no specific VBA or script content was provided, the heuristic suggests the Excel file contains malicious code intended to download and execute a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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