Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8054dfc2485726c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2bf2ece9496ca91f4a67cc2d1cd51c18 SHA-1: 07b6e44a6941296beca650e35e0c5fd2f6f42b69 SHA-256: c8054dfc2485726cb0ed92c75b9ce76fe39d33c1efbf99ea4766c2af97709ab9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. Its primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel document. The detection name itself serves as a key indicator of the threat.

Heuristics 1

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