Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b4f4466d696520b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b46bf17e8f1411b9b07dde1813630a01 SHA-1: 7a614440437ee8e6237f14b9ce6efc37c172b601 SHA-256: 8b4f4466d696520b9315408d68df95e000e3904df2ac34eaeed1b8fc8f585be0
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 functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests it likely uses embedded VBA to download and execute a secondary payload, a common Qbot delivery method.

Heuristics 1

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