Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8a05586cc8f7185…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2639343d5fcf140bed2b4c13c2405da2 SHA-1: 9aaee187c28372f95c07695c1f9f10fdc72c65ad SHA-256: e8a05586cc8f71858e15a0c377874dd645c7f7510d8a8b0d6578031367891815
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. The heuristic firing suggests the Excel file contains malicious content intended to download and execute a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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