Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df8b7ec66f8a0bc4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bdc65f7899d0315cc2bd7b5e81238289 SHA-1: 0fd3268942bf08fff321d82155121af4a77eb076 SHA-256: df8b7ec66f8a0bc4dc4f09da5d760b081724898593d033444c151b99912e205d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant used for dropping malicious payloads. The presence of macro-related heuristics indicates it likely uses VBA to execute its malicious functions, such as downloading and running a secondary stage. 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