Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d42eb5123b28e1d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 290b526178f51e3e9dc01065cbca02b8 SHA-1: 1ce2e60d86cb05fe15b2066025d8a0796d2dce96 SHA-256: 8d42eb5123b28e1d2eed2f20bb920521122d88f8d22a36865ed48abc887ba095
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 heuristic firing indicates the presence of malicious VBA code, likely responsible for initiating the download and execution of the final malware stage.

Heuristics 1

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