Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e40a2e3f35f7156…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1e524c535514af918c1800d196552edb SHA-1: ea3d39aca31f5fefe3393e4cb46e2b875bd57cdd SHA-256: 8e40a2e3f35f7156b57ce0d231e3f32fae2657d786f1be85e319ae52a8b727c8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly suggesting it is a Qbot downloader. The primary attack vector is likely macro execution within the spreadsheet, which would then download and execute a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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