Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f82ee286c9dbb0fd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4a19dcf5f2b822dd46740df5e817bdc1 SHA-1: a6d6655c6e17381e0c3061d696fba97b8ceba741 SHA-256: f82ee286c9dbb0fd33c54d5054205d453971306fec17eb14fa218a6fc5386d50
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to drop a malicious payload. The Excel format suggests it was likely delivered via a spearphishing attachment. No VBA or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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