Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8af7d756f09eebf5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 820e614ec30f16ddd7a980f8a046923a SHA-1: 1ae9d1d33ad6e74089e225879684a2511930c25d SHA-256: 8af7d756f09eebf5fc64a65209233cb2efbfda4aebbdd7d6637f0c152f04dbc3
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The file type is an Excel spreadsheet, a common delivery mechanism for macro-based malware. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to convince the user to enable macros, which would then execute the malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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