Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b589f36afda4712…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 176c1a5c666b322be97091eed4e4fcb4 SHA-1: 39c6d58205318ecf2e51260ff3580816cba3d5a7 SHA-256: 8b589f36afda4712c6cb7f543f7458050df3527611437f67105b160611c8ae4e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a Qbot dropper based on ClamAV heuristics. This type of malware typically uses malicious documents to trick users into enabling macros, which then download and execute a secondary payload. The specific Qbot variant suggests a focus on delivering the Qbot banking trojan.

Heuristics 1

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