Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0d8927fc706064f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 43d38a7f7e1a3f24c4a0f3b0824392a8 SHA-1: b4ed109690be254b99c33a906c5027a2d8be45df SHA-256: e0d8927fc706064f0cbc92231487bbe75b78e9dcd4749980b70f1ebc0117d385
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: User Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The malicious nature is confirmed by the verdict and the specific ClamAV detection name. The attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes the embedded malware.

Heuristics 1

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