Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8b510bbc4893378…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 692ba7f5e0987746f5f424311a7d3beb SHA-1: 679f2d03081cf6d237291fa822a03699c1569fab SHA-256: d8b510bbc489337877220b2f335ed8e4ef55057665520c9da41b63fd8965ae2d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper, indicating its purpose is to deliver the Qbot malware. The heuristic firing strongly suggests this malicious intent. As a macro-enabled document, it likely uses embedded VBA to initiate the download and execution of the secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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