Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8076dbd19fc5398…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b534b48fae4ca9c5c1c3d6b1c1fc2d69 SHA-1: 2e46617701779c898828be27ea0de6edb692ed08 SHA-256: e8076dbd19fc5398aa4cfeafaff1aa342643d42f7eb0540e2ec15ebb3364be20
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a secondary payload. The primary function appears to be initial infection vector, likely through social engineering within the Excel document itself, leading to the execution of malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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