Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a7e29632c29ff57…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d605555be3d239db651e2b4cf7dffa1c SHA-1: 7ff08b5446aa20735006e6ff679c4be9c07ab18c SHA-256: 8a7e29632c29ff579a328d509913c6009890a60e887965079c5c796ee4fe903c
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 functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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