Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e49fe2a9661a84f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6d5c8bf5a916432e40c4f94a54b73ca2 SHA-1: c6bd50cb3ac4ff3dfd68063e42cde81bc1f46e31 SHA-256: 8e49fe2a9661a84fec4cb4a1ff04cc98916bab7e3cb7ed467556abb9201ec978
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded code to download and run a further stage payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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