Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8eabec3de1b0b48…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 784a5e3828a908554285fbc000c4ce0b SHA-1: b3af34a21e0d8a5dd8151d84bbb464629b3fed72 SHA-256: b8eabec3de1b0b48a2e2cb47c3c91c89b4cd7fe2727d23f3934be4441c9e04cc
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', a known Qbot variant. This heuristic strongly suggests the file's purpose is to act as a dropper for a Qbot payload. The detection name implies it's a macro-enabled document, likely leveraging VBA to download and execute the next stage.

Heuristics 1

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