Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f49a313ac87f8d2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d8fc279df186360f1ad78775534f4cea SHA-1: e5e9d2aa489f3ea8aaf303a8d41035d9b03b155e SHA-256: 8f49a313ac87f8d2f4217babd99eee979b2a4086d711a8ef1d7612829f09532a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution to download and run a secondary malicious 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