Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e4e289e7a4a774d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7e3da59d11305f8804963c6f6d3514aa SHA-1: 1dad9acfea3ef645970ac40f1db2123549e2c60b SHA-256: 8e4e289e7a4a774d86bfba90e77b78e5b816b12288a8eaef95866c499cd3b483
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The ClamAV heuristic 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0' strongly suggests this Excel file is a dropper for the Qbot malware family. Dropper malware typically aims to download and execute a secondary payload, making this the likely attack pattern. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic is sufficient for a high-confidence assessment.

Heuristics 1

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