Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a41b049496a81a1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3f3c65edc1623277606c303ac7c1c85e SHA-1: e63e2865bab2023215811e9511d6b9f0b2a3f7ee SHA-256: 8a41b049496a81a1b78bfb43ee7e3a950bda856b9ba2c2cea6b35392f38cd3ed
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 indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The detection name suggests it's a macro-enabled document used for initial infection. Further analysis of the document's content and any embedded scripts would be necessary to confirm the exact execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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