Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2c8873e111912ce…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c8bef78db3c7021c1ae823495acd7b68 SHA-1: 1dc4e2f55036a204c657a7b649a0091c8a699f8a SHA-256: c2c8873e111912cef1441c0ae89ff603295ccf7e5871ed9ed46ca1cfdade42ec
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, strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. While no VBA or scripts were explicitly extracted, the heuristic firing suggests the presence of malicious code within the Excel document, likely intended to download and execute a secondary payload. 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