Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8b1c9589aa0f9a7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 54b48d87ec8af404f62362c5b9eb5b1a SHA-1: 8f21b0c15c6ec467b66b86299895e6cbd82a1ebd SHA-256: f8b1c9589aa0f9a75b3474be7b58b59456feda645c2298b125d3361f9f88d5b1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The heuristic firing indicates the primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel document.

Heuristics 1

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